Correlation functions on conical defects
Abstract
We explore the new technique developed recently in \cite{Rosenhaus:2014woa} and suggest a correspondence between the -point correlation functions on spacetime with conical defects and the -point correlation functions in regular Minkowski spacetime. This correspondence suggests a new systematic way to evaluate the correlation functions on spacetimes with conical defects. We check the correspondence for the expectation value of a scalar operator and of the energy momentum tensor in a conformal field theory and obtain the exact agreement with the earlier derivations for cosmic string spacetime. We then use this correspondence and do the computations for a generic scalar operator and a conserved vector current. For generic unitary field theory we compute the expectation value of the energy momentum tensor using the known spectral representation of the -point correlators of stress-energy tensor in Minkowski spacetime.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.2512,
title = {Correlation functions on conical defects},
author = {Michael Smolkin and Sergey N. Solodukhin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.2512},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 pages; v3: new reference added