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We compute correlation functions of chiral primary operators in \( \mathcal{N}=2 \) super-conformal theories at large N using a construction based on supersymmetric localization recently developed by Gerchkovitz et al. We focus on \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) SYM as well as on supercon-formal QCD. In the case of \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) we recover the free field theory results as expected due to non-renormalization theorems. In the case of superconformal QCD we study the planar expansion in the large N limit. The final correlators admit a simple generalization to a finite N formula which exactly matches the various small N results in the literature.
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Rodriguez-Gomez, D., Russo, J.G. Large N correlation functions in superconformal field theories. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 109 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2016)109
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