Multipoint correlators on the supersymmetric Wilson line defect CFT. Part II. Unprotected operators

Abstract

Abstract We continue our study of multipoint correlators of scalar fields on the 1d defect CFT generated by inserting operators along the Maldacena-Wilson line in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM. We present a weak-coupling recursion relation that captures correlators at next-to-leading order involving an arbitrary number of the elementary scalar fields ϕ i and ϕ 6, the latter being unprotected. We can then build correlators of composite operators by pinching the scalar fields together. As a demonstration of our method, we give explicit results for correlators containing up to six points. We also expand some selected correlators using recently obtained conformal blocks in the comb and snowflake channel, and check that the extracted low-lying CFT data is consistent with explicit computations.

Keywords

• Wilson, ’t Hooft and Polyakov loops
• Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
• AdS-CFT Correspondence