English

Emission from the D1D5 CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-09 v2

Abstract

It is believed that the D1D5 brane system is described by an 'orbifold CFT' at a special point in moduli space. We first develop a general formulation relating amplitudes in a d-dimensional CFT to absorption/emission of quanta from flat infinity. We then construct the D1D5 vertex operators for minimally coupled scalars in supergravity, and use these to compute the CFT amplitude for emission from a state carrying a single excitation. Using spectral flow we relate this process to one where we have emission from a highly excited initial state. In each case the radiation rate is found to agree with the radiation found in the gravity dual.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0906.2015,
  title  = {Emission from the D1D5 CFT},
  author = {Steven G. Avery and Borun D. Chowdhury and Samir D. Mathur},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.2015},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

49 pages, latex, 6 figures; v2: reformatted for JHEP, corrected typos, and added references

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