New exotic operators appear on Wilson lines in general representations; their dimension-one superprimaries produce marginally relevant deformations of half-BPS defects in N=4 SYM, supported by a general weak-coupling four-point function.
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In this article we consider n gluon color ordered, planar amplitudes in N=4 super Yang Mills at strong 't Hooft coupling. These amplitudes are approximated by classical surfaces in AdS_5 space. We compute the value of the amplitude for a particular kinematic configuration for a large number of gluons and find that the result disagrees with a recent guess for the exact value of the amplitude. Our results are still compatible with a possible relation between amplitudes and Wilson loops. In addition, we also give a prescription for computing processes involving local operators and asymptotic states with a fixed number of gluons. As a byproduct, we also obtain a string theory prescription for computing the dual of the ordinary Wilson loop, Tr P exp[ i\oint A ], with no couplings to the scalars. We also evaluate the quark-antiquark potential at two loops.
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New Exotic Operators in the Spectrum of Wilson Lines in General Representations
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Bootstrapping the Four-Point NMHV Stress-Tensor Form Factor
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Five legs @ three loops: N=4 sYM amplitude near mass-shell
Three-loop five-leg amplitude in planar N=4 sYM near mass shell is computed via 6D unitarity cuts and dimensional reduction, confirming IR exponentiation governed by octagon anomalous dimension with each of three kinematic structures having its own function of 't Hooft coupling.
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Walking Sudakov: From Cusp to Octagon
In a novel scaling limit on the Coulomb branch of planar N=4 SYM, the Sudakov form factor and four-point amplitude exhibit double-logarithmic behavior governed by a walking anomalous dimension that interpolates between cusp and octagon anomalous dimensions, with proposed all-loop expressions relying
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Crosscap Defects
Crosscap defects are introduced in CFTs via Z2 quotients, with crossing equations derived and CFT data computed in the O(N) model at Gaussian and Wilson-Fisher points showing absent displacement and tilt operators for generic p.
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Bouncing singularities and thermal correlators on line defects
Retarded correlators of bulk scalars and Wilson-line displacement operators exhibit bouncing singularities at t_c=β/2(1+i) with matching WKB and asymptotic OPE data, implying a universal high-frequency factorization.
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Heavy Quark Transport is Non-Gaussian Beyond Leading Log
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