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Bootstrapping the half-BPS line defect CFT in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling

  • Pietro Ferrero
  • , Carlo Meneghelli
  • University of Parma
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics

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Abstract

We consider the one-dimensional (1D) conformal field theory defined by the half-BPS Wilson line in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills. Using analytic bootstrap methods we derive the four-point function of the superdisplacement operator at fourth order in a strong coupling expansion. Via AdS/CFT, this corresponds to the first three-loop correlator in anti-de Sitter 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 nonprotected operator and find agreement with the integrability-based numerical result of Grabner, Gromov, and Julius.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberL081703
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume104
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 15 2021

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