Speaker
Istvan Mate Szecsenyi
(Nordita)
Description
We study a family of higher-twist Regge trajectories in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using the Quantum Spectral Curve. We explore the many-sheeted Riemann surface and show the interplay between the higher-twist trajectories and the several degenerate non-local operators, called (near-)horizontal trajectories, that have a strong connection to light ray operators, objects omnipresent in 4-dimensional Minkowskian CFTs.
We resolve the encountered degeneracy analytically by computing the first non-trivial order of the Regge intercept at weak coupling, which exhibits new behaviour: it depends linearly on the coupling. This is consistent with our numerics, which interpolate all the way to strong coupling.
Primary author
Istvan Mate Szecsenyi
(Nordita)
Co-authors
Dr
Michelangelo Preti
(KCL)
Dr
Rob Klabbers
(Humboldt University Berlin)
