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How much spectral information is needed to determine the correlation functions of a conformal theory? We study this question in the context of planar supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, where integrability techniques accurately determine the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-01 Simon Caron-Huot , Frank Coronado , Anh-Khoi Trinh , Zahra Zahraee

We study the operator product expansion (OPE) of identical scalars in a conformal four-point correlator as a Stieltjes moment problem, and use Riemann-Liouville type fractional differential operators to generate classical moments from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 David Poland , Gordon Rogelberg

We develop a systematic method to constrain any n-point correlation function of spinning operators in Large N Slightly Broken Higher Spin (SBHS) theories. As an illustration of the methodology, we work out the three point functions which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-26 Prabhav Jain , Sachin Jain , Bibhut Sahoo , Dhruva K. S , Aashna Zade

We describe how to implement the conformal bootstrap program in the context of the embedding space OPE formalism introduced in previous work. To take maximal advantage of the known properties of the scalar conformal blocks for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-14 Jean-François Fortin , Wen-Jie Ma , Valentina Prilepina , Witold Skiba

We consider correlation functions of topologically twisted, $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with gauge group ${\rm SU}(2)$ and $N_f\leq 3$ massive hypermultiplets in the fundamental representation. For a smooth, compact,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Elias Furrer , Jan Manschot

We consider the correlator <W_n O(x)> of a light-like polygonal Wilson loop with n cusps with a local operator (like the dilaton or the chiral primary scalar) in planar N =4 super Yang-Mills theory. As a consequence of conformal symmetry,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 L. F. Alday , E. I. Buchbinder , A. A. Tseytlin

Motivated by the problem of understanding 3-point correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in N =4 super Yang-Mills theory we consider correlators involving Wilson loops and a "light" operator with fixed quantum numbers. At…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-19 Luis F. Alday , Arkady A. Tseytlin

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

Supersymmetric localisation has led to several modern developments in the study of integrated correlators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. In particular, exact results have been derived for certain integrated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-30 Daniele Dorigoni , Paolo Vallarino

Higher-point functions of scalar operators are a rich observable in CFTs, as they contain OPE data involving multiple spinning operators. We derive the lightcone blocks for five- and six-point functions in the snowflake channel and use them…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-05 António Antunes , Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Vilas Boas

Correlation functions of operators with a conformal dimension of O(N^2) are not well approximated by the planar limit. The non-planar diagrams, which in the bulk spacetime correspond to string loop corrections, are enhanced by huge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-28 Robert de Mello Koch , Tanay K. Dey , Norman Ives , Michael Stephanou

In this work, we study the $\frac{1}{8}$-BPS heavy-heavy-light-light correlators in the D1D5 CFT and its holographic dual. On the field theory side, we compute the fermionic four-point correlators at the free orbifold point. On the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Jia Tian , Jue Hou , Bin Chen

We compute certain two-point functions in D=4, ${\cal N}=4$, SU(N) SYM theory on the Coulomb branch using SUGRA/SYM duality and find an infinite set of first order poles at masses of order $({\rm Higgs~scale})/(g_{YM} \sqrt{N})$.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Iouri Chepelev , Radu Roiban

We consider the correlation function of a null Wilson loop with four edges and a local operator in planar MSYM. By applying the insertion procedure, developed for correlation functions of local operators, we give an integral representation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-17 Luis F. Alday , Paul Heslop , Jakub Sikorowski

The present paper is the first installment where, extending our previous work in pure Yang-Mills (YM) theory, we compute the generating functional of correlators of collinear twist-$2$ operators that enter the components of balanced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-28 Marco Bochicchio , Mauro Papinutto , Francesco Scardino

Recently isotropic basis functions of $N$ unit vector arguments were presented; these are of significant use in measuring the N-Point Correlation Functions (NPCFs) of galaxy clustering. Here we develop the generating function for these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-20 Zachary Slepian , Jessica Chellino , Jiamin Hou

We present exact expressions for certain integrated correlators of four superconformal primary operators in the stress tensor multiplet of $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang--Mills (SYM) theory with classical gauge group, $G_N$ $= SO(2N)$,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Daniele Dorigoni , Michael B. Green , Congkao Wen

We calculate three-point functions of two protected operators and one twist-two operator with arbitrary even spin j in N=4 SYM theory to one-loop order. In order to carry out the calculations we project the indices of the spin j operator to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Jan Plefka , Konstantin Wiegandt

We compute to all loop orders correlation function of four heavy BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}$= 4 SYM with special polarisations considered recently by Frank Coronado. Our main result is an expression for the octagon form factor as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-19 Ivan Kostov , Valentina B. Petkova , Didina Serban

Recently it was established that the one-loop planar dilatation generator of N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory may be identified, in some restricted cases, with the Hamiltonians of various integrable quantum spin chains. In particular Minahan and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Niklas Beisert , Matthias Staudacher