Eikonal approximation in AdS/CFT: from shock waves to four-point functions

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DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/08/019zbMATH Open1326.81147arXivhep-th/0611122OpenAlexW2110669415MaRDI QIDQ896322FDOQ896322

Ricardo Schiappa, Lorenzo Cornalba, João Penedones, Miguel S. Costa

Publication date: 9 December 2015

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

Abstract: We initiate a program to generalize the standard eikonal approximation to compute amplitudes in Anti-de Sitter spacetimes. Inspired by the shock wave derivation of the eikonal amplitude in flat space, we study the two-point function E ~ < O_1 O_1 >_{shock} in the presence of a shock wave in Anti-de Sitter, where O_1 is a scalar primary operator in the dual conformal field theory. At tree level in the gravitational coupling, we relate the shock two-point function E to the discontinuity across a kinematical branch cut of the conformal field theory four-point function A ~ < O_1 O_2 O_1 O_2 >, where O_2 creates the shock geometry in Anti-de Sitter. Finally, we extend the above results by computing E in the presence of shock waves along the horizon of Schwarzschild BTZ black holes. This work gives new tools for the study of Planckian physics in Anti-de Sitter spacetimes.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.0120




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