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Monodromies of CFT correlates on the Lorentzian Cylinder

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-05-06 v1

Abstract

While correlators of a CFT are single valued in Euclidean Space, they are multi valued -- and have a complicated sheet structure -- in Lorentzian space. Correlators on R1,1R^{1,1} are well known to access a finite number of these sheets. In this paper we demonstrate the spiral nature of lightcones on S1×S^1 \times time allows time ordered correlators of a CFT2CFT_2 on this spacetime -- the Lorentzian cylinder -- to access an infinite number of sheets of the correlator. We present a complete classification, both of the sheets accessed as well as of the various distinct causal configurations that lie on a particular sheet. Our construction provides a physical interpretation for an infinite number of sheets of the correlator, while, however, leaving a larger infinity of these sheets uninterpreted.

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@article{arxiv.2505.01507,
  title  = {Monodromies of CFT correlates on the Lorentzian Cylinder},
  author = {Suman Kundu and Shiraz Minwalla and Abhishek Navhal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.01507},
  year   = {2025}
}

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125 pages, 20 figures