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We introduce two new graphical-level relations among possible contributions to the four-point correlation function and scattering amplitude in planar, maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. When combined with the rung rule, these prove…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-21 Jacob L. Bourjaily , Paul Heslop , Vuong-Viet Tran

We study correlators of four protected (half-BPS) operators in strongly coupled supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. These are dual to tree-level supergravity amplitudes on AdS${}_5\times$S${}_5$ for various spherical harmonics on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Simon Caron-Huot , Anh-Khoi Trinh

We show that planar cal N=4 Yang-Mills theory at zero 't Hooft coupling can be efficiently described in terms of 8 bosonic and 8 fermionic oscillators. We show that these oscillators can serve as world-sheet variables, the string bits, of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Luis F. Alday , Justin R. David , Edi Gava , K. S. Narain

We propose a nonperturbative framework to study general correlation functions of single-trace operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at large $N$. The basic strategy is to decompose them into fundamental building…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Thiago Fleury , Shota Komatsu

We calculate the three-loop master integrals contributing to the three-loop five-point amplitude on the special Coulomb branch of $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. For the genuine pentagon integrals, we follow the approach of Ref. [JHEP 12 (2025)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Andrei V. Belitsky , Leonid V. Bork , Roman N. Lee , Andrei I. Onishchenko , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We study a recently discovered family of 1/8-BPS supersymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and their string theory duals. The operators are defined for arbitrary contours on a two-sphere in space-time, and they were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Simone Giombi , Vasily Pestun , Riccardo Ricci

We consider N = 4 Yang-Mills theory on a flat four-torus with the R-symmetry current coupled to a flat background connection. The partition function depends on the coupling constant of the theory, but when it is expanded in a power series…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-05 Måns Henningson , Fredrik Ohlsson

We study two- and three-point correlation functions of chiral primary half-BPS operators in four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal circular, cyclic symmetric quiver theories. Using supersymmetric localization, these functions can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-30 Gregory P. Korchemsky , Alessandro Testa

We consider the defect CFT defined by a 't Hooft line embedded in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. By explicitly quantizing around the given background we exactly reproduce a prediction from S-duality for the correlators between the 't Hooft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-29 Charlotte Kristjansen , Konstantin Zarembo

We study the 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loop in four-dimensional SU(N), $N = 2$ SYM theories with massless hypermultiplets and non-vanishing $\beta$-function. Using super-symmetric localization on $S_4$ , we map the path-integral associated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-22 Marco Billo' , Luca Griguolo , Alessandro Testa

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

We apply the analytic conformal bootstrap method to study weakly coupled conformal gauge theories in four dimensions. We employ twist conformal blocks to find the most general form of the one-loop four-point correlation function of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Johan Henriksson , Tomasz Lukowski

BPS Wilson loops in supersymmetric gauge theories have been the subjects of active research since they are often amenable to exact computation. So far most of the studies have focused on loops that do not intersect. In this paper, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-15 Simone Giombi , Shota Komatsu

We show that dual conformal symmetry, mainly studied in planar $\mathcal N = 4$ super-Yang-Mills theory, has interesting consequences for Feynman integrals in nonsupersymmetric theories such as QCD, including the nonplanar sector. A simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Zvi Bern , Michael Enciso , Harald Ita , Mao Zeng

We develop a compact representation of the one-loop n-point functions of all chiral primary operators in planar SU(N), N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in terms of tree-level disk correlation functions and the scalar one-loop box integral. As a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-24 Nadav Drukker , Jan Plefka

We compute $1/\lambda$ corrections to the four-point functions of half-BPS operators in $SU(N)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills theory at large $N$ and large 't Hooft coupling $\lambda=g_\text{YM}^2 N$ using two methods. Firstly, we relate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Damon J. Binder , Shai M. Chester , Silviu S. Pufu , Yifan Wang

We study the correlation function of two circular Wilson loops at strong coupling in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, the problem maps to finding the minimal surface between two circles defined on the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Amit Dekel , Thomas Klose

The planar integrability of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super-Yang-Mills (SYM) is the cornerstone for numerous exact observables. We show that the large charge sector of the ${\rm SU}(2)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM provides another interesting solvable corner…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-02 João Caetano , Shota Komatsu , Yifan Wang

We will argue that the 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the anti-symmetric representations in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory exhibit a phase transition at some critical value of the 't Hooft coupling of order $N^2$. In the matrix…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Kazumi Okuyama

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