Wrapping effects in supersymmetric gauge theories

Abstract

Several perturbative computations of finite-size effects, performed on the gauge side of the AdS/CFT correspondence by means of superspace techniques, are presented. First, wrapping effects are analyzed in the standard N = 4 theory, by means of the calculation of the four-loop anomalous dimension of the Konishi operator. Then, a similar computation at five loops is described. Afterwards, finite-size effects are studied in the beta-deformed case, where thanks to the reduced number of supersymmetries the simpler class of single-impurity operators can be considered, so that the leading corrections to the anomalous dimensions at generic order can be reduced to the computation of a class of integrals. Explicit results are given up to eleven loops. A further chapter is dedicated to the computation of the leading finite-size effects on operators dual to open strings. In the end, some comments are made and proposals for future developments are discussed.