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Heavy holographic correlators in defect conformal field theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-09 v2

Abstract

We study holographic defect conformal field theories which are dual to probe branes with bottom-up methods. First we determine the embedding of codimension-1 interface branes in AdS space. Then we compute defect one and two-point functions of heavy scalar operators at strong coupling. We use geodesic approximations to compute reflected two-point functions in two ways, as well as ambient and defect-channel two-point functions. In appropriate limits, our results agree with the operator product expansion (OPE) and the boundary operator expansion (BOE).

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@article{arxiv.2601.15736,
  title  = {Heavy holographic correlators in defect conformal field theories},
  author = {Georgios Linardopoulos and Chanyong Park},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.15736},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

15 pages, 5 figures; manuscript revised, references added