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We construct generating functions of five- and six-point correlators up to two loops at weak 't Hooft coupling in planar N=4 SYM. These generating functions unify the correlators of the lightest scalar operator in the stress-tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-01 Till Bargheer , Albert Bekov , Carlos Bercini , Frank Coronado

We consider correlators of N=4 super Yang Mills of the form A ~ < O_1 O_2 O*_1 O*_2 >, where the operators O_1 and O_2 are scalar primaries. In particular, we analyze this correlator in the planar limit and in a Lorentzian regime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Lorenzo Cornalba , Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones

Using supersymmetric localization, we study the sector of chiral primary operators $({\rm Tr} \, \phi^2 )^n$ with large $R$-charge $4n$ in $\mathcal{N}=2$ four-dimensional superconformal theories in the weak coupling regime $g\rightarrow…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Antoine Bourget , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez , Jorge G. Russo

We consider the $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory with gauge group $Sp(N)$ and the $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theory consisting of four hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation and one hypermultiplet in the rank-two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-09 Lorenzo De Lillo , Alessandro Pini

We study a special class of four-point correlation functions of infinitely heavy half-BPS operators in planar N=4 SYM which admit factorization into a product of two octagon form factors. We demonstrate that these functions satisfy a system…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 A. V. Belitsky , G. P. Korchemsky

We use the embedding formalism to study correlation functions of a d-dimensional Euclidean CFT in the presence of a $q$ co-dimensional defect. The defect breaks the global conformal group $SO(d+1,1)$ into $SO(d-q+1,1) \times SO(q)$. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-06 Sunny Guha , Balakrishnan Nagaraj

We derive recursion relations for the anomalous dimensions of double-trace operators occurring in the conformal block expansion of four-point stress tensor correlators in the 6d $(2,0)$ theory, which encode higher-derivative corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Theresa Abl , Paul Heslop , Arthur E. Lipstein

In this work we construct the crossing symmetry equations for mixed correlators of two long and two BPS operators in 4D $\mathcal{N}=1$ SCFTs. The analysis presented here illustrates how our general group theoretic approach to long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-28 Ilija Buric , Volker Schomerus , Evgeny Sobko

We study half-BPS line defects in $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal theories using the bootstrap approach. We concentrate on local excitations constrained to the defect, which means the system is a $1d$ defect CFT with $\mathfrak{osp}(4^*|2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

We study the correlators of a recently discovered family of BPS Wilson loops in ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric U(N) Yang-Mills theory. When the contours lie on a two-sphere in the space-time, we propose a closed expression that is valid for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-24 A. Bassetto , L. Griguolo , F. Pucci , D. Seminara , S. Thambyahpillai , D. Young

We consider $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver gauge theories in four dimensions and evaluate the chiral/anti-chiral correlators of single-trace operators. We show that it is convenient to form particular twisted and untwisted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 M. Billo , M. Frau , F. Galvagno , A. Lerda , A. Pini

We study extremal correlation functions of chiral primary operators in the large-N SU(N) ${\cal N} = 2$ superconformal QCD theory and present new results based on supersymmetric localization. We discuss extensively the basis-independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Marco Baggio , Vasilis Niarchos , Kyriakos Papadodimas , Gideon Vos

The generating functions for the Wilson loops in the symmetric and antisymmetric representations of the gauge group $U(N)$ are expressed in terms of the connected correlators of multiply-wound Wilson loops, using ingredients from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-30 Anthonny F. Canazas Garay , Alberto Faraggi , Wolfgang Mück

In this thesis, we consider two approaches to the study of correlation functions in one-dimensional defect Conformal Field Theories (dCFT$_1$), in particular those defined by 1/2-BPS Wilson line defects in the three- and four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-30 Gabriel J. S. Bliard

We study the 3-point functions of gauge-invariant scalar operators in four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver theories using supersymmetric localization in the planar limit of a large number of colors. By exploiting a web of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 M. Billo , M. Frau , A. Lerda , A. Pini , P. Vallarino

We evaluate three-point correlation functions of single trace operators in N=4 SYM at both weak and strong coupling. We focus on the case where two of the operators belong in a SL(2) sub-sector, and are dual to string solutions in a broad…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 George Georgiou

We analyze the line defect correlation functions decorating the supersymmetric indices of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theories with orthogonal and symplectic gauge groups. We obtain exact closed-form expressions for the correlators by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-08 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Hai Lin , Tadashi Okazaki

We use hexagonalization to compute four-point correlation functions of long BPS operators with special R-charge polarizations. We perform the computation at weak coupling and show that at any loop order our correlators can be expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Frank Coronado

We perform Monte Carlo calculation of correlation functions in 4d N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on R*S^3 in the planar limit. In order to circumvent the well-known problem of lattice SUSY, we adopt the idea of a novel large-N reduction, which…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2010-11-18 Masazumi Honda , Goro Ishiki , Sang-Woo Kim , Jun Nishimura , Asato Tsuchiya

We obtain all planar four-point correlators of half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM up to five loops. The ansatz for the integrand is fixed partially by imposing light-cone OPE relations between different correlators. We then fix the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-24 Dmitry Chicherin , Alessandro Georgoudis , Vasco Goncalves , Raul Pereira