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Degenerate Operators and the $1/c$ Expansion: Lorentzian Resummations, High Order Computations, and Super-Virasoro Blocks

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-04-26 v1

Abstract

One can obtain exact information about Virasoro conformal blocks by analytically continuing the correlators of degenerate operators. We argued in recent work that this technique can be used to explicitly resolve information loss problems in AdS3_3/CFT2_2. In this paper we use the technique to perform calculations in the small 1/cGN1/c \propto G_N expansion: (1) we prove the all-orders resummation of logarithmic factors 1clogz\propto \frac{1}{c} \log z in the Lorentzian regime, demonstrating that 1/c1/c corrections directly shift Lyapunov exponents associated with chaos, as claimed in prior work, (2) we perform another all-orders resummation in the limit of large cc with fixed czcz, interpolating between the early onset of chaos and late time behavior, (3) we explicitly compute the Virasoro vacuum block to order 1/c21/c^2 and 1/c31/c^3, corresponding to 22 and 33 loop calculations in AdS3_3, and (4) we derive the heavy-light vacuum blocks in theories with N=1,2\mathcal{N}=1,2 superconformal symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.1606.02659,
  title  = {Degenerate Operators and the $1/c$ Expansion: Lorentzian Resummations, High Order Computations, and Super-Virasoro Blocks},
  author = {Hongbin Chen and A. Liam Fitzpatrick and Jared Kaplan and Daliang Li and Junpu Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.02659},
  year   = {2017}
}

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34+20 pages, 2 figures