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Form factors in planar \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory admit a type of non-perturbative operator product expansion (OPE), as we have recently shown in [1]. This expansion is based on a decomposition of the dual periodic Wilson loop into elementary building blocks: the known pentagon transitions and a new object that we call form factor transition, which encodes the information about the local operator. In this paper, we compute the two-particle form factor transitions for the chiral part of the stress-tensor supermultiplet at Born level; they yield the leading contribution to the OPE. To achieve this, we explicitly construct the Gubser-Klebanov-Polyakov two-particle singlet states. The resulting transitions are then used to test the OPE against known perturbative data and to make higher-loop predictions.
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Sever, A., Tumanov, A.G. & Wilhelm, M. An Operator Product Expansion for Form Factors II. Born level. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 71 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2021)071
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