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A Test of the AdS/CFT Correspondence Using High-Spin Operators

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In two remarkable recent papers, hep-th/0610248 and hep-th/0610251, the complete planar perturbative expansion was proposed for the universal function of the coupling, f(g), appearing in the dimensions of high-spin operators of the N=4 SYM theory. We study numerically the integral equation derived in hep-th/0610251, which implements a resummation of the perturbative expansion, and find a smooth function that approaches the asymptotic form predicted by string theory. In fact, the two leading terms at strong coupling match with high accuracy the results obtained for the semiclassical folded string spinning in $AdS_5$. This constitutes a remarkable confirmation of the AdS/CFT correspondence for high-spin operators, and equivalently for the cusp anomaly of a Wilson loop. We also make a numerical prediction for the third term in the strong coupling series.

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Multi-Loop Negative Geometries

hep-th · 2026-05-27 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Explicit three-loop computation of negative geometries for F(g,z) with all-loop resummation of one-cycle diagrams and extraction of the cusp anomalous dimension via z-integration.

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  • Landau Analysis of One-Cycle Negative Geometries hep-th · 2026-04-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 36

    One-cycle negative geometries in N=4 SYM have singularities only at z=-1, 0, and infinity to all loop orders.

  • Positivity properties of observables in planar maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory hep-th · 2026-06-29 · unverdicted · none · ref 42 · internal anchor

    Several observables in planar N=4 SYM, including the octagon anomalous dimension and Bremsstrahlung function, admit a once-subtracted dispersion representation over a positive measure in the coupling.

  • Multi-Loop Negative Geometries hep-th · 2026-05-27 · unverdicted · none · ref 123 · internal anchor

    Explicit three-loop computation of negative geometries for F(g,z) with all-loop resummation of one-cycle diagrams and extraction of the cusp anomalous dimension via z-integration.