2009

Superprotected n-point correlation functions of local operators in N=4 super Yang-Mills

Drukker, Nadav, Plefka, Jan

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In this paper we study the n-point correlation functions of two different families of local gauge invariant operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory.

The main idea is to consider the correlation functions of operators which all share a number of supersymmetries irrespective of their relative locations.
We achieve this by equipping the operators with explicit space-time dependence.
We provide evidence by different methods that these n-point correlators do not receive quantum corrections in perturbation theory and are hence given exactly by their tree-level result.

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