OPEs and 3-point correlators of protected operators in N=4 SYM Original Research Article

Two- and three-point correlation functions of arbitrary protected operators are constructed in N=4 SYM using analytic superspace methods. The OPEs of two chiral primary multiplets are given. It is shown that the n-point functions of protected operators for n⩽4 are invariant under U(1)Y and it is argued that this implies that the two- and three-point functions are not renormalised. It is shown explicitly how unprotected operators can be accommodated in the analytic superspace formalism in a way which is fully compatible with analyticity. Some new extremal correlators are exhibited.