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We study non-planar correlators in \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super-Yang-Mills in Mellin space. We focus in the stress tensor four-point correlator to order 1/N4 and in a strong coupling expansion. This can be regarded as the genus-one four-point graviton amplitude of type IIB string theory on AdS5 × S5 in a low energy expansion. Both the loop supergravity result as well as the tower of stringy corrections have a remarkable simple structure in Mellin space, making manifest important properties such as the correct flat space limit and the structure of UV divergences.
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Alday, L.F. On genus-one string amplitudes on AdS5 × S5. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 5 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2021)005
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