2–6 Sept 2024
University of Southampton
Europe/London timezone

Non-planar integrated correlator in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM

4 Sept 2024, 11:30
20m
B46/LTA (University of Southampton)

B46/LTA

University of Southampton

Talk in parallel session Amplitudes (string theory, field theory, gravity) Parallel sessions

Speaker

Shun-qing Zhang

Description

Integrated correlator of four superconformal stress-tensor primaries in $SU(N)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory in the perturbative limit takes a remarkably simple form, where the $L$-loop coefficient is given by a rational multiple of $\zeta(2L+1)$. In this talk, we extend the previous analysis of expressing the perturbative integrated correlator as a linear combination of periods of $f$-graphs, graphical representations for loop integrands, to the non-planar sector at four loops. At this loop order, multiple zeta values make their first appearance when evaluating periods of non-planar $f$-graphs, but cancel non-trivially in the weighted sum. The remaining single zeta value, along with the rational number prefactor, makes a perfect agreement with the prediction from supersymmmetric localisation.

Link to publication (if applicable)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18900

Author

Shun-qing Zhang

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