From celestial correlators to AdS, and back

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DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2023)053arXiv2208.01629OpenAlexW4380537748MaRDI QIDQ6134462FDOQ6134462

Massimo Taronna, Lorenzo Iacobacci, Charlotte Sleight

Publication date: 25 July 2023

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

Abstract: We present a general relation between celestial correlation functions in d-dimensions and Witten diagrams in left(d+1ight)-dimensional Euclidean anti-de Sitter (EAdS) space, to all orders in perturbation theory. Contact diagram processes are proportional to contact Witten diagrams, and particle exchanges can be recast as a continuum of particle exchanges in EAdS where the exchanged particles carrying unitary Principal Series representations of SOleft(d+1,1ight). One can then try to import familiar EAdS techniques to study the properties of celestial correlators. In this work we use this relation to infer the analytic structure of the spectral density in the conformal partial wave expansion of celestial correlators which, at least perturbatively, should be a meromorphic function of the spectral parameter. We also discuss non-perturbative constraints from unitarity in Euclidean Conformal Field Theory, which requires positivity of the spectral density. This extends similar relations recently uncovered between boundary correlation functions in de Sitter space and Witten diagrams in EAdS, suggesting that EAdS could play a central role in efforts towards holography for all lambdas.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.01629




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