Energy-Energy Correlators at Strong Coupling

2026/07/23 by Max Jackson, Lecheng Ren, Bo Wang +1
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Abstract

We study energy-energy correlators (EEC) in planar N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong 't Hooft coupling λ. We consider the EEC in states created by half-BPS operators of arbitrary dimension p, and determine the corresponding event-shape function up to order λ^-3/2 from the worldsheet representation of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude with Kaluza-Klein external states. For p=2 we compute the second curvature correction, which completes the EEC through order λ^-2; the new contribution improves the agreement with recently derived non-perturbative bounds at intermediate coupling. We further develop a complementary method in which the strong-coupling expansion coefficients of the EEC are extracted directly from the Wilson coefficients of low-energy expansion of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, and find the two approaches in perfect agreement.

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