Energy-energy correlators at strong coupling

A bstract We study energy-energy correlators (EEC) in planar N N = 4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong ’t Hooft coupling λ . We consider the EEC in states created by half-BPS operators of arbitrary dimension p , and determine the corresponding event-shape function up to order λ −3/2 from the worldsheet representation of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude with Kaluza-Klein external states. For p = 2 we compute the second curvature correction, which completes the EEC through order λ −2 ; the new contribution improves the agreement with recently derived non-perturbative bounds at intermediate coupling. We further develop a complementary method in which the strong-coupling expansion coefficients of the EEC are extracted directly from the Wilson coefficients of low-energy expansion of the AdS Virasoro-Shapiro amplitude, and find the two approaches in perfect agreement.