Holographic conformal blocks from interacting Wilson lines
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-09-21 v2
Abstract
We present a simple prescription for computing conformal blocks and correlation functions holographically in AdS in terms of Wilson lines merging at a bulk vertex. This is shown to reproduce global conformal blocks and heavy-light Virasoro blocks. In the case of higher spin theories the space of vertices is in one-to-one correspondence with the space of conformal blocks, and we show how the latter are obtained by explicit computations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.07317,
title = {Holographic conformal blocks from interacting Wilson lines},
author = {Mert Besken and Ashwin Hegde and Eliot Hijano and Per Kraus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07317},
year = {2016}
}
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40 pages, 1 figure