Constraining strongly coupled quantum field theories using symmetry

Session

Session 1

23 Jan 2026, 10:00

2. Wilson Line Defect in N=4 SYM: a Tale of Bootstrability

Andrea Cavaglià (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

23/01/2026, 10:00

I will review a series of works exploring the combination of the numerical conformal bootstrap with data coming from integrability to study excitations of a Wilson line in N=4 SYM. I will discuss where the method works very well and where it meets some barriers, and ideas for future work that could help to overcome them.