Black holes from CFT: universality of correlators at large c

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2017)084zbMATH Open1381.83070arXiv1706.00771MaRDI QIDQ1700151FDOQ1700151

Authors: Per Kraus, Allic Sivaramakrishnan, River Snively 

Publication date: 2 March 2018

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

Abstract: Two-dimensional conformal field theories at large central charge and with a sufficiently sparse spectrum of light states have been shown to exhibit universal thermodynamics. This thermodynamics matches that of AdS${}_3$ gravity, with a Hawking-Page transition between thermal AdS and the BTZ black hole. We extend these results to correlation functions of light operators. Upon making some additional assumptions, such as large $c$ factorization of correlators, we establish that the thermal AdS and BTZ solutions emerge as the universal backgrounds for the computation of correlators. In particular, Witten diagrams computed on these backgrounds yield the CFT correlators, order by order in a large $c$ expansion, with exponentially small corrections. In pure CFT terms, our result is that thermal correlators of light operators are determined entirely by light spectrum data. Our analysis is based on the constraints of modular invariance applied to the torus two-point function.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00771

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondenceblack holes in string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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