Energy-Energy Correlators at Strong Coupling
Abstract
We study energy-energy correlators (EEC) in planar 𝒩=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong 't Hooft coupling λ. We consider the EEC in states created by half-BPS operators of arbitrary dimension p, and determine the corresponding event-shape function up to order λ−3/2 from the worldsheet representation of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude with Kaluza-Klein external states. For p=2 we compute the second curvature correction, which completes the EEC through order λ−2; the new contribution improves the agreement with recently derived non-perturbative bounds at intermediate coupling. We further develop a complementary method in which the strong-coupling expansion coefficients of the EEC are extracted directly from the Wilson coefficients of low-energy expansion of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, and find the two approaches in perfect agreement.
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BibTeX
@misc{jackson2026energyenergy,
title = {{Energy-Energy Correlators at Strong Coupling}},
author = {Max Jackson and Lecheng Ren and Bo Wang and Congkao Wen},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2607.21139},
eprint = {2607.21139},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21139},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Energy-Energy Correlators at Strong Coupling
AU - Max Jackson
AU - Lecheng Ren
AU - Bo Wang
AU - Congkao Wen
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/09
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2607.21139
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21139
AB - We study energy-energy correlators (EEC) in planar 𝒩=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong 't Hooft coupling λ. We consider the EEC in states created by half-BPS operators of arbitrary dimension p, and determine the corresponding event-shape function up to order λ^−3/2 from the worldsheet representation of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude with Kaluza-Klein external states. For p=2 we compute the second curvature correction, which completes the EEC through order λ^−2; the new contribution improves the agreement with recently derived non-perturbative bounds at intermediate coupling. We further develop a complementary method in which the strong-coupling expansion coefficients of the EEC are extracted directly from the Wilson coefficients of low-energy expansion of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, and find the two approaches in perfect agreement.
ER -