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All Giant Graviton Two-Point Functions at Two-Loops

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-09-30 v1

Abstract

We present a comprehensive two-loop computation of correlation functions involving two maximal giant gravitons and two arbitrary RR-charge single-trace half-BPS operators in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 Super-Yang-Mills theory. By combining the partially-contracted giant graviton (PCGG) method with the N=2\mathcal{N}=2 harmonic superspace formalism, we achieve significant simplifications in perturbative calculations. The resulting correlation functions encode rich CFT data, from which we derive sum rules for the OPE coefficients. These sum rules are in perfect agreement with integrability predictions. Furthermore, at the integrand level, we find a hidden higher dimensional symmetry present at both one- and two-loop orders. This symmetry was discovered recently at strong coupling, which generalizes its counterpart in correlation functions of single-trace operators.

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@article{arxiv.2509.23161,
  title  = {All Giant Graviton Two-Point Functions at Two-Loops},
  author = {Yu Wu and Yunfeng Jiang and Chang Liu and Yang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23161},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

59 pages, many figures

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