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Geodesic Witten diagrams with an external spinning field

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-06-14 v2

Abstract

We explore AdS/CFT correspondence between geodesic Witten diagrams and conformal blocks (conformal partial waves) with an external symmetric traceless tensor field. We derive an expression for the conformal partial wave with an external spin-1 field and show that this expression is equivalent to the amplitude of the geodesic Witten diagram. We also show the equivalence by using conformal Casimir equation in embedding formalism. Furthermore, we extend the construction of the amplitude of the geodesic Witten diagram to an external arbitrary symmetric traceless tensor field. We show our construction agrees with the known result of the conformal partial waves.

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@article{arxiv.1609.04563,
  title  = {Geodesic Witten diagrams with an external spinning field},
  author = {Mitsuhiro Nishida and Kotaro Tamaoka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.04563},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pages, 4 figures, v2: published version, reorganized contents, fixed typos, added references

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