3–14 Aug 2026
Europe/London timezone
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Bootstrapping the Maldacena-Polyakov loop in N=4 SYM at finite temperature

4 Aug 2026, 15:15
30m
Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre 101 (Tait Building at City St George’s, University of London)

Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre 101

Tait Building at City St George’s, University of London

Speaker

Nika Sokolova

Description

I discuss a thermal bootstrap setup for the Maldacena-Polyakov loop in the planar limit of N=4 Super Yang-Mills theory. In this limit, the spectrum of low-lying operators is accessible via integrability, specifically through the Quantum Spectral Curve. Our primary observables are two-point functions of operators inserted on the loop, which in this context is a thermal circle. Following recent advances in thermal bootstrap, we extract thermal structure constants for the first low-lying operators by combining the integrability-based spectrum with thermal bootstrap constraints.

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