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In this article, we shall develop and formulate two novel viewpoints and properties concerning the three-point functions at weak coupling in the SU(2) sector of the \( \mathcal{N} \) =4 super Yang-Mills theory. One is a double spin-chain formulation of the spin-chain and the associated new interpretation of the operation of Wick contraction. It will be regarded as a skew symmetric pairing which acts as a projection onto a singlet in the entire SO(4) sector, instead of an inner product in the spin-chain Hilbert space. This formalism allows us to study a class of three-point functions of operators built upon more general spin-chain vacua than the special configuration discussed so far in the literature. Furthermore, this new viewpoint has the significant advantage over the conventional method: In the usual “tailoring” operation, the Wick contraction produces inner products between off-shell Bethe states, which cannot be in general converted into simple expressions. In contrast, our procedure directly produces the so-called partial domain wall partition functions, which can be expressed as determinants. Using this property, we derive simple determinantal representation for a broader class of three-point functions. The second new property uncovered in this work is the non-trivial identity satisfied by the three-point functions with monodromy operators inserted. Generically this relation connects three-point functions of different operators and can be regarded as a kind of Schwinger-Dyson equation. In particular, this identity reduces in the semiclassical limit to the triviality of the product of local monodromies Ω1Ω2Ω3 = 1 around the vertex operators, which played a crucial role in providing all important global information on the three-point function in the strong coupling regime arXiv:1312.3727. This structure may provide a key to the understanding of the notion of “integrability” beyond the spectral level.
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Kazama, Y., Komatsu, S. & Nishimura, T. Novel construction and the monodromy relation for three-point functions at weak coupling. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 95 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2015)095
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