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Bootstrapping the half-BPS line defect CFT in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM at strong coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-03-10 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider the 1d CFT defined by the half-BPS Wilson line in planar N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills. Using analytic bootstrap methods we derive the four-point function of the super-displacement operator at fourth order in a strong coupling expansion. Via AdS/CFT, this corresponds to the first three-loop correlator in AdS ever computed. To do so we address the operator mixing problem by considering a family of auxiliary correlators. We further extract the anomalous dimension of the lightest non-protected operator and find agreement with the integrability-based numerical result of Grabner, Gromov and Julius.

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@article{arxiv.2103.10440,
  title  = {Bootstrapping the half-BPS line defect CFT in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM at strong coupling},
  author = {Pietro Ferrero and Carlo Meneghelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.10440},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Minor corrections, matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-24T00:19:47.226Z