AdS$\times$S Mellin Bootstrap, Hidden 10d Symmetry and Five-point Kaluza-Klein Functions in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM

Abstract

We propose an AdS$\times$S factorization formula at the level of the generating function for correlators with arbitrary Kaluza-Klein configurations, and implement it in the supergravity limit of $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills. By incorporating this mechanism into Mellin space bootstrap, together with an observed $Z_2$ symmetry under AdS$\leftrightarrow$S, we manage to simultaneously work out unified formulas both for all five-point half-BPS correlators and for all four-point correlators with one superdescendant. This AdS\times$S bootstrap method is directly applicable to generic multi-point computation at tree level.

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