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We study correlation functions of local operator insertions on the 1/2-BPS Wilson line in ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. These correlation functions are constrained by the 1d superconformal symmetry preserved by the 1/2-BPS Wilson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-20 Simone Giombi , Radu Roiban , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We present the full form of a four-point correlation function of large BPS operators in planar N = 4 Super Yang-Mills to any loop order. We do this by following a bootstrap philosophy based on three simple axioms pertaining to (i) the space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-06 Frank Coronado

We study two-point functions of single-trace half-BPS operators in the presence of a supersymmetric Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. We use inversion formula technology in order to reconstruct the CFT data starting from a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-30 Julien Barrat , Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

Besides solving the spectral problem of $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory, integrability also provides us with tools to compute the structure constants of the theory, most prominently through the hexagon formalism. We show that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-20 Dennis le Plat , Torben Skrzypek

We propose an integrability setup for the computation of correlation functions of gauge-invariant operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at higher orders in the large $N_{\text{c}}$ genus expansion and at any order in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Till Bargheer , Joao Caetano , Thiago Fleury , Shota Komatsu , Pedro Vieira

We study correlators of $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS mesons in two examples of 4d SQCDs with $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal symmetry in the planar limit. We focus on the weakly coupled regime and obtain one-loop corrections to $n$-point meson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-24 Xi-Er Du , Zhongjie Huang , Bo Wang , Ellis Ye Yuan , Xinan Zhou

We study the structure of the four-point correlation function of the lowest-dimension 1/2 BPS operators (stress-tensor multiplets) in the (2,0) six-dimensional theory. We first discuss the superconformal Ward identities and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 G. Arutyunov , E. Sokatchev

We develop a new technique for computing a class of four-point correlation functions of heavy half-BPS operators in planar N=4 SYM theory which admit factorization into a product of two octagon form factors with an arbitrary bridge length.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 A. V. Belitsky , G. P. Korchemsky

Two-dimensional sl(n) quantum Toda field theory on a sphere is considered. This theory provides an important example of conformal field theory with higher spin symmetry. We derive the three-point correlation functions of the exponential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 V. A. Fateev , A. V. Litvinov

We study at strong coupling the scaling function describing the large spin anomalous dimension of twist two operators in ${\cal N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory. In the spirit of AdS/CFT duality, it is possible to extract it from the string…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Matteo Beccaria , Gian Fabrizio De Angelis , Valentina Forini

We use supersymmetric localization to calculate correlation functions of half-BPS local operators in 3d ${\cal N} = 4$ superconformal field theories whose Lagrangian descriptions consist of vectormultiplets coupled to hypermultiplets. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-13 Mykola Dedushenko , Silviu S. Pufu , Ran Yacoby

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

Half BPS correlators in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory are key quantities both in the AdS/CFT correspondence as well as in scattering amplitudes research. They are dual at strong coupling to quantum gravity amplitudes. At weak coupling on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Paul Heslop

Correlation functions of 1/4 BPS Wilson loops with the infinite family of 1/2 BPS chiral primary operators are computed in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills theory by summing planar ladder diagrams. Leading loop corrections to the sum are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Gordon W. Semenoff , Donovan Young

We study the six-point gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling based on the twisted Z_4-symmetric integrable model. The lattice regularization allows us to derive the associated thermodynamic Bethe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Katsushi Ito , Yuji Satoh , Junji Suzuki

We initiate the study of four-point functions of large BPS operators at any value of the coupling. We do it by casting it as a sum over exchange of superconformal primaries and computing the structure constants using integrability. Along…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Benjamin Basso , Frank Coronado , Shota Komatsu , Ho Tat Lam , Pedro Vieira , De-liang Zhong

We study the connected correlator of 1/2 BPS winding Wilson loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ $U(N)$ super Yang-Mills theory, where those Wilson loops are on top of each other along the same circle. We find the exact finite $N$ expression of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Kazumi Okuyama

Starting with some known localization (matrix model) representations for correlators involving 1/2 BPS circular Wilson loop $\cal W$ in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory we work out their $1/N$ expansions in the limit of large 't Hooft coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-27 Matteo Beccaria , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We develop analytical methods for computing the structure constant for three heavy operators, starting from the recently proposed hexagon approach. Such a structure constant is a semiclassical object, with the scale set by the inverse…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Yunfeng Jiang , Shota Komatsu , Ivan Kostov , Didina Serban

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