Level repulsion in N = 4 super-Yang-Mills via integrability, holography, and the bootstrap

Shai M. Chester, Ross Dempsey, Silviu S. Pufu

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Abstract

We combine supersymmetric localization with the numerical conformal bootstrap to bound the scaling dimension and OPE coefficient of the lowest-dimension unprotected operator in N = 4 SU(N) super-Yang-Mills theory for a wide range of N and Yang-Mills couplings gYM. We find that our bounds are approximately saturated by weak coupling results at small gYM. Furthermore, at large N our bounds interpolate between integrability results for the Konishi operator at small gYM and strong-coupling results, including the first few stringy corrections, for the lowest-dimension double-trace operator at large gYM. In particular, our scaling dimension bounds describe the level splitting between the single- and double-trace operators at intermediate coupling.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number59
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2024
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2024

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Keywords

  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • Conformal and W Symmetry
  • Nonperturbative Effects
  • Supersymmetric Gauge Theory

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