Journal of High Energy Physics (Apr 2023)

Integrated correlators from integrability: Maldacena-Wilson line in N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SYM

  • Andrea Cavaglià,
  • Nikolay Gromov,
  • Julius Julius,
  • Michelangelo Preti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2023)026
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2023, no. 4
pp. 1 – 46

Abstract

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Abstract We present a systematic method for the derivation of a relation which connects the correlation function of operators on the straight Maldacena-Wilson line with the integrability data for the cusp anomalous dimension. As we show, the derivation requires very careful treatment of the UV divergences. Our method opens a way to derive infinitely many constraints on integrals of multi-point correlation functions, relating them with the integrability data for the generalised cusp anomalous dimension governed by the Quantum Spectral Curve. Such constraints have been shown recently to be very powerful in combination with the numerical conformal bootstrap, leading to very narrow non-perturbative bounds on conformal data beyond the spectrum.

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