Published September 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Holographic correlators in AdS3 without Witten diagrams

  • 1. Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica ed Astronomia "Galileo Galilei" (Italy)
  • 2. Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Research in String Theory, School of Physics and Astronomy (United Kingdom)

Description

We present a formula for the holographic 4-point correlators in AdS3 × S3 involving four single-trace operators of dimension k, k, l, l. As an input we use the super-gravity results for the Heavy-Heavy-Light-Light correlators that can be derived by studying the linear fluctuations around known asymptotically AdS3 × S3 geometries. When the operators of dimension k and l are in the same multiplet there are contributions due to the exchange of single-trace operators in the t and u-channels, which are not captured by the approach mentioned above. However by rewriting the s-channel results in Mellin space we obtain a compact expression for the s-channel contribution that makes it possible to conjecture a formula for the complete result. We discuss some consistency checks that our proposal meets.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2019
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 1-17
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
54070225
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; GEOMETRY; MULTIPLETS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SCATTERING AMPLITUDES; SUPERGRAVITY
Descriptors DEC
AMPLITUDES; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICS; UNIFIED FIELD THEORIES

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