Published April 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

p-adic CFT is a holographic tensor network

  • 1. Fudan University, State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics (China)
  • 2. Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Theoretical Physics (China)
  • 3. Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik (Germany)

Description

The p-adic AdS/CFT correspondence relates a CFT living on the p-adic numbers to a system living on the Bruhat-Tits tree. Modifying our earlier proposal [1] for a tensor network realization of p-adic AdS/CFT, we prove that the path integral of a p-adic CFT is equivalent to a tensor network on the Bruhat-Tits tree, in the sense that the tensor network reproduces all correlation functions of the p-adic CFT. Our rules give an explicit tensor network for any p-adic CFT (as axiomatized by Melzer), and can be applied not only to the p-adic plane, but also to compute any correlation functions on higher genus p-adic curves. Finally, we apply them to define and study RG flows in p-adic CFTs, establishing in particular that any IR fixed point is itself a p-adic CFT.

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Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2019
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 1-39
ISSN
1029-8479

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Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
54070632
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; PATH INTEGRALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; TENSORS
Descriptors DEC
FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRALS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES

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