Diagonal form factors and heavy-heavy-light three-point functions at weak coupling

Abstract

Abstract: In this paper we consider a special kind of three-point functions of HHL type at weak coupling in N=4$$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ SYM theory and analyze its volume dependence. At strong coupling this kind of three-point functions were studied recently by Bajnok, Janik and Wereszczynski [1]. The authors considered some cases of HHL correlator in the su2$$ \mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{u}(2) $$ sector and, relying on their explicit results, formulated a conjecture about the form of the volume dependence of the symmetric HHL structure constant to be valid at any coupling up to wrapping corrections. In order to test this hypothesis we considered the HHL correlator in su2$$ \mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{u}(2) $$ sector at weak coupling and directly showed that, up to one loop, the finite volume dependence has exactly the form proposed in [1]. Another side of the conjecture suggests that computation of the symmetric structure constant is equivalent to computing the corresponding set of infinite volume form factors, which can be extracted as the coefficients of finite volume expansion. In this sense, extracting appropriate coefficients from our result gives a prediction for the corresponding infinite volume form factors.