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This paper studies magnetic line defects in the Wilson-Fisher $O(N)$ model. A powerful method to probe the system is to consider mixed two-point functions of the order parameter and the energy operator in the presence of the defect. A…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-07 Aleix Gimenez-Grau

We bootstrap tree-level supergravity four-point correlators on AdS$_5\times$S$^5$ with one external half-BPS double-particle operator and three half-BPS single-particle operators. Our only input is the consistency of the operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Francesco Aprile , Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo , Joao Vilas Boas

We study the large charge sector of the defect CFT defined by the half-BPS Wilson loop in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. Specifically, we consider correlation functions of two large charge insertions and several…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-07 Simone Giombi , Shota Komatsu , Bendeguz Offertaler

Correlation functions of Wilson lines are relevant for describing the infrared structure of scattering amplitudes. We develop a new method for evaluating a wide class of such Wilson line integrals, and apply it to the calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Johannes M. Henn , Tobias Huber

We study five-point off-shell conformal integrals and the associated half-BPS correlation functions at two loops in the 't Hooft coupling expansion of maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We construct a basis of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Chia-Kai Kuo , Qinglin Yang

We study correlators of insertions along 1/2 BPS line defects in the holographic dual to type IIB string theory in $AdS_3 \times S^3 \times T^4$ with mixed Ramond-Ramond and Neveu Schwarz-Neveu Schwarz three-form flux. These defects break…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-04 Gabriel Bliard , Diego H. Correa , Martín Lagares , Ignacio Salazar Landea

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 anomalous dimensions of unprotected low twist operators in the four-dimensional $SU(N)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We construct a class of interpolating functions to approximate the dimensions of the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 Abhishek Chowdhury , Masazumi Honda , Somyadip Thakur

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 compute correlation functions of protected primaries on the $1/2$-BPS Wilson loop in ${\cal N}$ = 4 super Yang-Mills theory at weak coupling. We first perform direct perturbative computation at one loop in the planar limit and present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Naoki Kiryu , Shota Komatsu

Correlators of Wilson loop operators with O_4=Tr(F_{\mu\nu}^2+...) are computed in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The results are compared with the leading order perturbative computations. As a consequence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Erickson , G. W. Semenoff , K. Zarembo

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

Higher-point correlation functions encode the data of infinitely many 4-point correlators in conformal field theory (CFT). In this paper, we develop new tools to efficiently extract this data from multi-point crossing equations. Concretely,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 António Antunes , Sebastian Harris , Apratim Kaviraj

The combination of integrability and crossing symmetry has proven to give tight non-perturbative bounds on some planar structure constants in $\mathcal{N}$=4 SYM, particularly in the setup of defect observables built on a Wilson-Maldacena…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-20 Andrea Cavaglià , Nikolay Gromov , Michelangelo Preti

A challenge in the study of conformal field theory (CFT) is to characterize the possible defects in specific bulk CFTs. Given the success of numerical bootstrap techniques applied to the characterization of bulk CFTs, it is desirable to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-16 Ryan A. Lanzetta , Shang Liu , Max A. Metlitski

Using supersymmetric localization, we show that the partition function of four-dimensional superconformal gauge theories - computed as a trace over BPS states without the insertion of $(-1)^F$ - is perturbatively protected and piecewise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Alejandro Cabo-Bizet

In this long overdue second installment, we continue to develop the conformal bootstrap program for ${\mathcal N}=4$ superconformal field theories in four dimensions via an analysis of the correlation function of four stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 Christopher Beem , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

Correlation functions in perturbative N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory are examined in the Berenstein-Maldacena-Nastase (BMN) limit. We demonstrate that non-extremal four-point functions of chiral primary fields are ill-defined in that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-23 N. Beisert , C. Kristjansen , J. Plefka , G. W. Semenoff , M. Staudacher

We test the AdS/CFT correspondence by calculating Wilson loops in N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory on R*S^3 in the planar limit. Our method is based on a novel large-N reduction, which reduces the problem to Monte Carlo calculations in the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-12-20 Masazumi Honda , Goro Ishiki , Jun Nishimura , Asato Tsuchiya

In this work we initiate a positive semi-definite numerical bootstrap program for multi-point correlators. Considering six-point functions of operators on a line we reformulate the crossing symmetry equation for a pair of comb-channel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-19 António Antunes , Sebastian Harris , Apratim Kaviraj , Volker Schomerus