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The coupling constant dependence of correlation functions of BPS operators in N=4 Yang-Mills can be expressed in terms of integrated correlation functions. We approximate these integrated correlators by using a truncated OPE expansion. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Anirban Basu , Michael B. Green , Savdeep Sethi

We study cusped Wilson line operators in the Abelian Higgs model in $ d = 4 - \epsilon $ at large external charges. Using a double-scaling limit $ Q \to \infty $, $ \epsilon \to 0 $ with $ Q\epsilon $ fixed, we develop a semiclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Jahmall Bersini , Domenico Orlando , Susanne Reffert , Jesse Woods

We derive the perturbative expansion of a particular integrated correlator of two superconformal primary operators in the stress tensor multiplet of $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric $SU(N)$ Yang-Mills theory in the presence of a half-BPS 't…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-04 Daniele Dorigoni

We study various aspects of half-BPS surface defect operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. For defects on generic points on the moduli space we use superconformal symmetry to fix the form of one-point and two-point functions of half-BPS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Adolfo Holguin , Hiroki Kawai

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we compute analytically the late-time behavior of two-point functions, Wilson loops and entanglement entropy in a strongly coupled $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills plasma undergoing a boost-invariant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-28 Juan F. Pedraza

In this paper, we present a framework for the analytic bootstrap of three-point energy correlators, a crucial observable in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory and quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our approach combines spherical contour…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Jianyu Gong , Andrzej Pokraka , Kai Yan , Xiaoyuan Zhang

We describe the hexagon function bootstrap for solving for six-gluon scattering amplitudes in the large $N_c$ limit of ${\cal N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory. In this method, an ansatz for the finite part of these amplitudes is constrained at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-28 Lance J. Dixon , James M. Drummond , Claude Duhr , Matt von Hippel , Jeffrey Pennington

We find an exact analytical solution of the Y-system describing a cusped Wilson line in the planar limit of N=4 SYM. Our explicit solution describes anomalous dimensions of this family of observables for any value of the `t Hooft coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-15 Nikolay Gromov , Fedor Levkovich-Maslyuk , Grigory Sizov

We study operators in four-dimensional gauge theories which are localized on a straight line, create electric and magnetic flux, and in the UV limit break the conformal invariance in the minimal possible way. We call them Wilson-'t Hooft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Anton Kapustin

We study the two-point function of local operators in the critical O(N) model in the presence of a magnetic field localized on a line. We use a recently developed conformal dispersion relation to compute the correlator at first order in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Lorenzo Bianchi , Davide Bonomi , Elia de Sabbata

We explore the space of extremal functionals in the conformal bootstrap. By recasting the bootstrap problem as a set of non-linear equations parameterized by the CFT data, we find an efficient algorithm for converging to the extremal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi

Motivated by understanding the scattering of gravitons and their superpartners from extended $(p, q)$-strings in type IIB string theory via AdS/CFT, we study an integrated two-point function of stress tensor multiplet operators in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-16 Silviu S. Pufu , Victor A. Rodriguez , Yifan Wang

We study $\frac{1}{4}$-BPS Wilson loops in four-dimensional SU$(N$) ${\mathcal{N}}=2$ super-Yang-Mills theories with conformal matter in an arbitrary representation $\mathcal{R}$. These operators are formed of two meridians on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-07 Luca Griguolo , Luigi Guerrini , Alessandro Testa

We describe in more detail our approach to the conformal bootstrap which uses the Mellin representation of $CFT_d$ four point functions and expands them in terms of crossing symmetric combinations of $AdS_{d+1}$ Witten exchange functions.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Rajesh Gopakumar , Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

We develop an analytic approach to the four-point crossing equation in CFT, for general spacetime dimension. In a unitary CFT, the crossing equation (for, say, the s- and t-channel expansions) can be thought of as a vector equation in an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-13 Dalimil Mazac , Leonardo Rastelli , Xinan Zhou

We explore conformally coupled scalar theory in AdS$_{6}$ extensively and their classical solutions by employing power expansion order by order in its self-interaction coupling $\lambda$. We study holographic correlation functions of scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jae-Hyuk Oh

The three-loop four-point function of stress-tensor multiplets in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory contains two so far unknown, off-shell, conformal integrals, in addition to the known, ladder-type integrals. In this paper we evaluate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 James Drummond , Claude Duhr , Burkhard Eden , Paul Heslop , Jeffrey Pennington , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We compute for the first time the two-loop corrections to arbitrary n-gon lightlike Wilson loops in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, using efficient numerical methods. The calculation is motivated by the remarkable agreement between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-29 Charalampos Anastasiou , Andreas Brandhuber , Paul Heslop , Valentin V. Khoze , Bill Spence , Gabriele Travaglini

In the planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at weak coupling, we perform the first analytic computation of a two-loop eight-edged Wilson loop embedded into the boundary of AdS3. Its remainder function is given as a function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Vittorio Del Duca , Claude Duhr , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We perform a numerical bootstrap study of the mixed correlator system containing the half-BPS operators of dimension two and three in $\mathcal N = 4$ Super Yang-Mills. This setup improves on previous works in the literature that only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-02 Agnese Bissi , Andrea Manenti , Alessandro Vichi