The unique Polyakov blocks

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2020)075MaRDI QIDQ2658148zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charlotte Sleight, Massimo Taronna

Publication date 18 March 2021

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07998

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceconformal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Anomalies in quantum field theory (81T50) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: In this work we present a closed form expression for Polyakov blocks in Mellin space for arbitrary spin and scaling dimensions. We provide a prescription to fix the contact term ambiguity uniquely by reducing the problem to that of fixing the contact term ambiguity at the level of cyclic exchange amplitudes -- defining cyclic Polyakov blocks -- in terms of which any fully crossing symmetric correlator can be decomposed. We also give another, equivalent, prescription which does not rely on a decomposition into cyclic amplitudes and we underline the relation between cyclic amplitudes and dispersion relations in Mellin space. We extract the OPE data of double-twist operators in the direct channel expansion of the cyclic Polyakov blocks using and extending the analysis of cite{Sleight:2018epi,Sleight:2018ryu} to include contributions that are non-analytic in spin. The relation between cyclic Polyakov blocks and analytic Bootstrap functionals is underlined.

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