Introduction to Integrability and One-point Functions in N=4 SYM and its Defect Cousin

2017/08/08 by de Leeuw, M., Ipsen, A. C., Kristjansen, C. +1
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1708.02525

Abstract

These lectures give a basic introduction to N=4 SYM theory and the integrability of its planar spectral problem as seen from the perspective of a recent development, namely the application of integrability techniques in the study of one-point functions in a defect version of the theory.

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