Date Nov 15, 2021, 2:30 pm – 2:30 pm Location Wolfensohn Hall (behind Bloomberg Hall) & on Zoom Share on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Speaker Shai Chester Affiliation Weizmann Institute of Science Presentation "Bootstrapping N = 4 super-Yang-Mills on the conformal manifold" Details Event Description Abstract: We study the N = 4 SYM stress tensor multiplet 4-point function for any value of the complexified coupling tau, and in principle any gauge group (we focus on SU(2) and SU(3) for simplicity). By combining non-perturbative constraints from the numerical bootstrap with two exact constraints from supersymmetric localization, we are able to compute upper bounds on low-lying CFT data (e.g. the Konishi) for any value of tau. These upper bounds are very close to the 4-loop weak coupling predictions in the appropriate regime. We also give preliminary evidence that these upper bounds become small islands under reasonable assumptions, in which case our method would provide a numerical solution to N = 4 SYM for any gauge group and tau. https://theias.zoom.us/j/82957176694?pwd=amhzSEpzSmphWElxU2s1MUsxTEZydz09 Sponsor IAS