A basis for large operators in N=4 SYM with orthogonal gauge group

Understand

We develop techniques to study the correlation functions of "large operators" whose bare dimension grows parametrically with N, in SO(N) gauge theory.

• We build the operators from a single complex matrix.
• For these operators, the large N limit of correlation functions is not captured by summing only the planar diagrams.
• By employing group representation theory we are able to define local operators which generalize the Schur polynomials of the theory with gauge group U(N).