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Non-protected operators in \(N=4\) SYM and multiparticle states of \(\text{AdS}_5\) SUGRA. (English) Zbl 0998.81054

Summary: We study a class of non-protected local composite operators which occur in the R-symmetry singlet channel of the OPE of two stress-tensor multiplets in \(N=4\) SYM. At tree level these are quadrilinear scalar dimension four operators, two single-traces and two double-traces. In the presence of interaction, due to a non-trivial mixing under renormalization, they split into linear combinations of conformally covariant operators. We resolve the mixing by computing the one-loop two-point functions of all the operators in an \(N=1\) setup, then diagonalizing the anomalous dimension matrix and identifying the quasiprimary operators. We find one operator whose anomalous dimension is negative and suppressed by a factor of \(1/N^2\) with respect to the anomalous dimensions of the Konishi-like operators. We reveal the mechanism responsible for this suppression and argue that it works at every order in perturbation theory. In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence such an operator should be dual to a multiparticle supergravity state whose energy is less than the sum of the corresponding individual single-particle states.

MSC:

81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
83E50 Supergravity
81T60 Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics

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Mathematica

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