Surface defects in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills: exact results and holographic bootstrap
We study two-point functions of chiral primary operators in $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills in the presence of a half-BPS surface defect. Such a defect preserves only the diagonal combination of transverse rotations and of a global U(1) R-symmetry, so that the correlator depends on one additional cross-ratio and split...