Type: Article
Publication Date: 2018-02-01
Citations: 93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02(2018)133
We examine the double-trace spectrum of $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ super Yang-Mills theory in the supergravity limit. At large N double-trace operators exhibit degeneracy. By considering free-field and tree-level supergravity contributions to four-point functions of half-BPS operators we resolve the degeneracy for a large family of double-trace operators. The mixing problem reveals a surprisingly simple structure which allows us to obtain their three-point functions at leading order in the large N expansion as well as their leading anomalous dimensions.