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