Simon Ekhammar (Kings College, London)

Strongly Coupled N=4 SYM via Integrability

N=4 Super Yang-Mills (SYM) is a highly symmetric theory which, remarkably, exhibits integrability in the planar limit. In particular, the full non-perturbative spectrum is encapsulated in the integrability-based Quantum Spectral Curve (QSC). An exciting regime is the strong coupling limit which, through the AdS/CFT-correspondence, is also naturally described using free strings on AdS5*S5. However, while the QSC can be readily solved at weak coupling, strong coupling has proved much more challenging. In this talk, I will describe the QSC, discuss recent progress in solving it at strong coupling and present new results for the spectrum of strongly coupled N=4 SYM. (Based on 2406.02698 with Nikolay Gromov and Paul Ryan)

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