Multiple zeta functions and double wrapping in planar N=4 SYM

TL;DR

This paper computes the Konishi operator's anomalous dimension in planar N=4 SYM up to eight loops using the FiNLIE solution, revealing the role of multiple zeta functions and proposing a conjecture about their exclusive appearance.

Contribution

It introduces a method to express spectral quantities via multiple Hurwitz zeta functions and conjectures that only Euler-Zagier sums appear in perturbative anomalous dimensions.

Findings

Computed up to eight loops, revealing zeta(1,2,8) at double wrapping order.

Developed a Mathematica package for manipulating multiple Hurwitz zeta functions.

Resummed leading transcendentality terms into a Bessel function expression.

Abstract

Using the FiNLIE solution of the AdS/CFT Y-system, we compute the anomalous dimension of the Konishi operator in planar N=4 SYM up to eight loops, i.e. up to the leading double wrapping order. At this order a non reducible Euler-Zagier sum, zeta(1,2,8), appears for the first time. We find that at all orders in perturbation, every spectral-dependent quantity of the Y-system is expressed through multiple Hurwitz zeta functions, hence we provide a Mathematica package to manipulate these functions, including the particular case of Euler-Zagier sums. Furthermore, we conjecture that only Euler-Zagier sums can appear in the answer for the anomalous dimension at any order in perturbation theory. We also resum the leading transcendentality terms of the anomalous dimension at all orders, obtaining a simple result in terms of Bessel functions. Finally, we demonstrate that exact Bethe equations should be related to an absence of poles condition that becomes especially nontrivial at double wrapping.