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Title:
Bootstrapping N = 4 super-Yang-Mills on the conformal manifold

Speaker:
Shai Chester

Abstract:
We study the N = 4 SYM stress tensor multiplet 4-point function for any value of the complexified coupling tau, and in principle any gauge group (we focus on SU(2) and SU(3) for simplicity). By combining non-perturbative constraints from the numerical bootstrap with two exact constraints from supersymmetric localization, we are able to compute upper bounds on low-lying CFT data (e.g. the Konishi) for any value of tau. These upper bounds are very close to the 4-loop weak coupling predictions in the appropriate regime. We also give preliminary evidence that these upper bounds become small islands under reasonable assumptions, in which case our method would provide a numerical solution to N = 4 SYM for any gauge group and tau.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=4984

Workshop:
Simons- Physics Seminar