Unitarity methods in AdS/CFT

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2020)061zbMath1435.83157arXiv1912.09521MaRDI QIDQ2191682

Eric Perlmutter, Allic Sivaramakrishnan, David Meltzer

Publication date: 25 June 2020

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09521

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryscattering amplitudesAdS-CFT correspondenceholographic unitarity method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35)

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