Four-point correlators of BPS operators in N=4 SYM at order g^4

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DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2003.07.027zbMATH Open1058.81050arXivhep-th/0305060OpenAlexW2038565950MaRDI QIDQ1409192FDOQ1409192


Authors: G. Arutyunov, S. Penati, A. Santambrogio, Emery Sokatchev Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 5 October 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the large N degeneracy in the structure of the four-point amplitudes of 1/2-BPS operators of arbitrary weight k in perturbative N=4 SYM theory. At one loop (order g^2) this degeneracy manifests itself in a smaller number of independent conformal invariant functions describing the amplitude, compared to AdS_5 supergravity results. To study this phenomenon at the two-loop level (order g^4) we consider a particular N=2 hypermultiplet projection of the general N=4 amplitude. Using the formalism of N=2 harmonic superspace we then explicitly compute this four-point correlator at two loops and identify the corresponding conformal invariant functions. In the cases of 1/2-BPS operators of weight k=3 and k=4 the one-loop large N degeneracy is lifted by the two-loop corrections. However, for weight k > 4 the degeneracy is still there at the two-loop level. This behavior suggests that for a given weight k the degeneracy will be removed if perturbative corrections of sufficiently high order are taken into account. These results are in accord with the AdS/CFT duality conjecture.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0305060




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