= 4 Super-Yang-Mills correlators at strong coupling from string theory and localization

DJ Binder, SM Chester, SS Pufu, Y Wang - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We compute 1/λ corrections to the four-point functions of half-BPS operators in SU
(N)\(\mathcal {N}\)= 4 super-Yang-Mills theory at large N and large't Hooft coupling λ=\({g} …

New modular invariants in = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory

SM Chester, MB Green, SS Pufu, Y Wang… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study modular invariants arising in the four-point functions of the stress tensor
multiplet operators of the\(\mathcal {N}\)= 4 SU (N) super-Yang-Mills theory, in the limit …

Far beyond the planar limit in strongly-coupled = 4 SYM

SM Chester, SS Pufu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract When the SU (N)\(\mathcal {N}\)= 4 super-Yang-Mills (SYM) theory with
complexified gauge coupling τ is placed on a round four-sphere and deformed by …

Correlation functions of Coulomb branch operators

E Gerchkovitz, J Gomis, N Ishtiaque, A Karasik… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We consider the correlation functions of Coulomb branch operators in four-
dimensional\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 Superconformal Field Theories (SCFTs) involving exactly one …

Extremal correlators and random matrix theory

A Grassi, Z Komargodski, L Tizzano - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study the correlation functions of Coulomb branch operators of four-
dimensional\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 Superconformal Field Theories (SCFTs). We focus on rank …

Tackling the SDC in AdS with CFTs

F Baume, JC Infante - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We study the Swampland Distance Conjecture for supersymmetric theories with
AdS 5 backgrounds and fixed radius through their\(\mathcal {N}\)= 2 SCFT holographic …

Anomalies, conformal manifolds, and spheres

J Gomis, PS Hsin, Z Komargodski… - Journal of High Energy …, 2016 - Springer
A bstract The two-point function of exactly marginal operators leads to a universal
contribution to the trace anomaly in even dimensions. We study aspects of this trace …

An introduction to supersymmetric field theories in curved space

TT Dumitrescu - Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review, we give a pedagogical introduction to a systematic framework for constructing
and analyzing supersymmetric field theories on curved spacetime manifolds. The framework …

Solving M-theory with the Conformal Bootstrap

NB Agmon, SM Chester, SS Pufu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We use the conformal bootstrap to perform a precision study of 3d maximally
supersymmetric (\(\mathcal {N}= 8\)) SCFTs that describe the IR physics on N coincident M2 …

Mirror symmetry and loop operators

B Assel, J Gomis - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract Wilson loops in gauge theories pose a fundamental challenge for dualities. Wilson
loops are labeled by a representation of the gauge group and should map under duality to …