12.12.2022 (Monday)

AdS Virasoro-Shapiro from single-valued periods

Regular Seminar Luis Fernando Alday (University of Oxford)

at:
14:00 IC
room B1004
abstract:

We determine the full 1/sqrt(lambda) correction to the flat-space Wilson coefficients which enter the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude in N=4 SYM theory at strong coupling. The assumption that the Wilson coefficients are in the ring of single-valued multiple zeta values, as expected for closed string amplitudes, is surprisingly powerful and leads to a unique solution to the dispersive sum rules relating Wilson coefficients and OPE data. The corresponding OPE data fully agrees with and extends the results from integrability.