Propagator identities, holographic conformal blocks, and higher-point AdS diagrams

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2019)268zbMATH Open1427.81136arXiv1906.08405WikidataQ126800307 ScholiaQ126800307MaRDI QIDQ2283546FDOQ2283546

Authors: Christian Jepsen, Sarthak Parikh, Hyojoong Kim, Nakwoo Kim 

Publication date: 2 January 2020

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

Abstract: Conformal blocks are the fundamental, theory-independent building blocks in any CFT, so it is important to understand their holographic representation in the context of AdS/CFT. We describe how to systematically extract the holographic objects which compute higher-point global (scalar) conformal blocks in arbitrary spacetime dimensions, extending the result for the four-point block, known in the literature as a geodesic Witten diagram, to five- and six-point blocks. The main new tools which allow us to obtain such representations are various higher-point propagator identities, which can be interpreted as generalizations of the well-known flat space star-triangle identity, and which compute integrals over products of three bulk-to-bulk and/or bulk-to-boundary propagators in negatively curved spacetime. Using the holographic representation of the higher-point conformal blocks and higher-point propagator identities, we develop geodesic diagram techniques to obtain the explicit direct-channel conformal block decomposition of a broad class of higher-point AdS diagrams in a scalar effective bulk theory, with closed-form expressions for the decomposition coefficients. These methods require only certain elementary manipulations and no bulk integration, and furthermore provide quite trivially a simple algebraic origin of the logarithmic singularities of higher-point tree-level AdS diagrams. We also provide a more compact repackaging in terms of the spectral decomposition of the same diagrams, as well as an independent discussion on the closely related but computationally simpler framework over $p$-adics which admits comparable statements for all previously mentioned results.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.08405

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryfield theories in lower dimensions1/N expansionAdS-CFT correspondenceblack holes in string theoryChern-Simons theoriesconformal and W symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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