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hep-th2026

Effective Field Theory for Holographic Compact Objects

Miguel Correia, Vasco Gonçalves, Filipe Serrano

We study heavy-heavy-light-light correlators in holographic CFTs when the heavy operator is dual to a compact object localized on scales much smaller than the AdS radius. In the lo…

hep-th2025

AdSS Mellin Bootstrap, Hidden 10d Symmetry and Five-point Kaluza-Klein Functions in SYM

Bruno Fernandes, Vasco Goncalves, Zhongjie Huang +3

We propose an AdSS factorization formula at the level of the generating function for correlators with arbitrary Kaluza-Klein configurations, and implement it in the supergr…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

Nonlinear Gravitational Memory in the Post-Minkowskian Expansion

Alessandro Georgoudis, Vasco Goncalves, Carlo Heissenberg +1

We present the first computation of the nonlinear gravitational memory waveform for the scattering of two compact objects in General Relativity at leading order in the post-Minkows…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

Dissecting supergraviton six-point function with lightcone limits and chiral algebra

Vasco Goncalves, Maria Nocchi, Xinan Zhou

We develop a bootstrap strategy to obtain the six-point function of supergravitons in from symmetry constraints and consistency conditions. Compared to previous b…

hep-th2024★ 3 cited

Wilson Loops with Lagrangians: Large Spin OPE and Cusp Anomalous Dimension Dictionary

Till Bargheer, Carlos Bercini, Bruno Fernandes +2

In the context of planar conformal gauge theory, we study five-point correlation functions between the interaction Lagrangian and four of the lightest single-trace, gauge-invariant…

hep-th2024

Two loop five point integrals: light, heavy and large spin correlators

Carlos Bercini, Bruno Fernandes, Vasco Gonçalves

We evaluated all two loop conformal integrals appearing in five point correlation functions of protected operators of Super Yang-Mills in several kinematical regi…

hep-th2023

Six-Point AdS Gluon Amplitudes from Flat Space and Factorization

Luis F. Alday, Vasco Gonçalves, Maria Nocchi +1

We present a powerful new approach to compute tree-level higher-point holographic correlators. Our method only exploits the flat-space limit, where we point out a novel and importa…

hep-th2023

Conformal multi-Regge theory

Miguel S. Costa, Vasco Goncalves, Aaditya Salgarkar +1

We propose and explore the Regge limit for correlation functions of five local primary operators in conformal field theories. After reviewing some features of Regge theory for flat…

hep-th2023

Kaluza-Klein Five-Point Functions from Supergravity

Vasco Gonçalves, Carlo Meneghelli, Raul Pereira +2

We continue to explore the bootstrap approach to five-point correlation functions for IIB supergravity on . Building on the result of [1], we develop an improved a…

hep-th2022★ 13 cited

Higher-Point Integrands in N=4 super Yang-Mills Theory

Till Bargheer, Thiago Fleury, Vasco Gonçalves

We compute the integrands of five-, six-, and seven-point correlation functions of twenty-prime operators with general polarizations at the two-loop order in N=4 super Yang-Mills t…

hep-th2022★ 6 cited

Spinning Hexagons

Carlos Bercini, Vasco Goncalves, Alexandre Homrich +1

We reduce the computation of three point function of three spinning operators with arbitrary polarizations to a statistical mechanics problem via the hexagon formalism. The central…

hep-th2022★ 40 cited

Super Gluon Five-Point Amplitudes in AdS Space

Luis F. Alday, Vasco Gonçalves, Xinan Zhou

We present the tree-level five-point amplitude of the lowest KK mode of SYM on AdSS, dual to the correlator of the flavor current multiplet in the dual 4d ${\cal N}…

hep-th2021★ 47 cited

Lightcone Bootstrap at higher points

António Antunes, Miguel S. Costa, Vasco Goncalves +1

Higher-point functions of scalar operators are a rich observable in CFTs, as they contain OPE data involving multiple spinning operators. We derive the lightcone blocks for five- a…

hep-th2021★ 24 cited

The Wilson Loop -- Large Spin OPE Dictionary

Carlos Bercini, Vasco Gonçalves, Alexandre Homrich +1

We work out the map between null polygonal hexagonal Wilson loops and spinning three point functions in large conformal gauge theories by mapping the variables describing the t…

hep-th2020★ 19 cited

Decagon at Two Loops

Thiago Fleury, Vasco Goncalves

We have computed the simplest five point function in SYM at two loops using the hexagonalization approach to correlation functions. Along the way we have determin…

hep-th2019★ 125 cited

Five-Point Function from Supergravity

Vasco Gonçalves, Raul Pereira, Xinan Zhou

We develop new techniques to compute five-point correlation functions from IIB supergravity on . Our methods rely entirely on symmetry and general consistency cond…

hep-th2018★ 2 cited

Skeleton expansion and large spin bootstrap for theory

Vasco Goncalves

We study skeleton expansion of theory in dimensions as well as its global symmetry generalizations. We use it to compute the four point function of the scalar field …

hep-th2018★ 32 cited

All five-loop planar four-point functions of half-BPS operators in SYM

Dmitry Chicherin, Alessandro Georgoudis, Vasco Goncalves +1

We obtain all planar four-point correlators of half-BPS operators in SYM up to five loops. The ansatz for the integrand is fixed partially by imposing light-cone OP…

hep-th2018★ 1 cited

A note on defect Mellin amplitudes

Vasco Goncalves, Georgios Itsios

We generalize the Mellin representation for a generic co-dimension flat defect CFT. We study the analytic structure of the Mellin amplitudes. We also compute Witten diagrams for a…

hep-th2017★ 20 cited

Konishi OPE coefficient at the five loop order

Alessandro Georgoudis, Vasco Goncalves, Raul Pereira

We use the method of asymptotic expansions to study the OPE limit of a four-point function of protected operators in N=4 SYM. We use a new method for evaluating the resulting propa…

hep-th2017★ 70 cited

Structure constants at wrapping order

Benjamin Basso, Vasco Goncalves, Shota Komatsu

We consider structure constants of single trace operators in planar = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory within the hexagon framework. The standard procedure for forming a thr…

hep-th2016★ 23 cited

Extracting OPE coefficient of Konishi at four loops

Vasco Gonçalves

We compute in this short note the OPE coefficient of two 20' operators and the Konishi. We use the OPE decomposition of a four point function of four 20' operators and the method o…

hep-th2016★ 140 cited

Defects in conformal field theory

Marco Billò, Vasco Gonçalves, Edoardo Lauria +1

We discuss consequences of the breaking of conformal symmetry by a flat or spherical extended operator. We adapt the embedding formalism to the study of correlation functions of sy…

hep-th2015★ 6 cited

Gluing Hexagons at Three Loops

Benjamin Basso, Vasco Goncalves, Shota Komatsu +1

We perform extensive three-loop tests of the hexagon bootstrap approach for structure constants in planar SYM theory. We focus on correlators involving two BPS oper…