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Correlation functions on conical defects

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-19 v3 Statistical Mechanics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We explore the new technique developed recently in \cite{Rosenhaus:2014woa} and suggest a correspondence between the NN-point correlation functions on spacetime with conical defects and the (N+1)(N+1)-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 22-point correlators of stress-energy tensor in Minkowski spacetime.

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@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}
}

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20 pages; v3: new reference added

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