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Integrability and conformal bootstrap: One dimensional defect conformal field theory

Andrea Cavaglià1,*, Nikolay Gromov1,2,†, Julius Julius1,‡, and Michelangelo Preti1,§

  • 1Department of Mathematics, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
  • 2St. Petersburg INP, Gatchina, 188 300 St. Petersburg, Russia

  • *andrea.cavaglia@kcl.ac.uk
  • †nikolay.gromov@kcl.ac.uk
  • ‡julius.julius@kcl.ac.uk
  • §michelangelo.preti@kcl.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. D 105, L021902 – Published 7 January, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.L021902

Abstract

In this paper we study how the exact nonperturbative integrability methods in 4D N=4 super-Yang-Mills can work efficiently together with the numerical conformal bootstrap techniques to go beyond the spectral observables and access previously unreachable quantities such as correlation functions at finite coupling. In the setup of 1D defect conformal field theory living on a Maldacena-Wilson line, we managed to compute with good precision a nonsupersymmetric structure constant for a wide range of the ‘t Hooft coupling. Our result is particularly precise at strong coupling and matches well with the recent analytic results of Meneghelli and Ferrero.

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Phys. Rev. D 105, L021902– Published 7 January, 2022
  • Received 23 August 2021
  • Accepted 3 December 2021
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