AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude with KK modes

Abstract

We determine the first curvature correction for the string amplitude of two supergravity states and two Kaluza-Klein modes on $\text{AdS}_5 \times \text{S}^5$, which is dual to the correlator $\langle \mathcal{O}_2 \mathcal{O}_2 \mathcal{O}_p \mathcal{O}_p \rangle$ of half-BPS operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory. The result has the form of an integral over the Riemann sphere as for the usual Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, with the insertion of single-valued multiple polylogarithms of weight three. The result fixes OPE data of single-trace operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory at strong coupling, including operators with non-zero $R$-charge and odd spin. We successfully check our results by comparing to data available from integrability, localisation and consistency with a $10d$ effective action.