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

Pietro Ferrero1,* and Carlo Meneghelli2,3,†

  • 1Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom
  • 2Dipartimento SMFI, Università di Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 7/A, 43100 Parma, Italy
  • 3INFN Gruppo Collegato di Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 7/A, 43100 Parma, Italy

  • *pietro.ferrero@maths.ox.ac.uk
  • †carlo.meneghelli@gmail.com

Phys. Rev. D 104, L081703 – Published 7 October, 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.L081703

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.

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