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3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ OPE Coefficients from Fermi Gas

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-08-21 v2

Abstract

The partition function of a 3d N=4\mathcal{N}=4 gauge theory with rank NN can be computed using supersymmetric localization in terms of a matrix model, which often can be formulated as an ideal Fermi gas with a non-trivial one-particle Hamiltonian. We show how OPE coefficients of protected operators correspond in this formalism to averages of nn-body operators in the Fermi gas, which can be computed to all orders in 1/N1/N using the WKB expansion. We use this formalism to compute OPE coefficients in the U(N)k×U(N)kU(N)_k\times U(N)_{-k} ABJM theory as well as the U(N)U(N) theory with one adjoint and NfN_f fundamental hypermultiplets, both of which have weakly coupled M-theory duals in the large NN and finite kk or NfN_f regimes. For ABJM we reproduce known results, while for the NfN_f theory we compute the all orders in 1/N1/N dependence at finite NfN_f for the coefficient cTc_T of the stress tensor two-point function.

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@article{arxiv.2004.13603,
  title  = {3d $\mathcal{N}=4$ OPE Coefficients from Fermi Gas},
  author = {Shai M. Chester and Rohit R. Kalloor and Adar Sharon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.13603},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

23 pages plus appendices, 1 figure, v2 published in JHEP with minor typos corrected

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