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Simplicity of Mellin amplitudes for AdS$_3 \times$S$^3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-10-21 v2

Abstract

The spectrum of half-BPS single-particle operators of the D1-D5 system in the supergravity regime is dual to the spectrum of Kaluza-Klein modes of tensor and graviton multiplets in AdS3×_3\timesS3^3. We present simple formulae for all four-point tree-level correlators of scalar half-BPS primary operators in the spectrum, and in particular, we bootstrap the four-point correlator of the graviton multiplet for all KK levels. A key insight of our approach is the use of generalized Mellin space, and a decomposition of the correlators into distinct subsectors each one characterized by different on-shell constraints among the Mellin variables. The resulting Mellin amplitudes involve a small set of building blocks with manifest properties under a six-dimensional symmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2504.19770,
  title  = {Simplicity of Mellin amplitudes for AdS$_3 \times$S$^3$},
  author = {F. Aprile and C. Behan and R. S. Pitombo and M. Santagata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19770},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

5 pages + 3 appendices + 3 nice Mellin amplitudes. v2: PRD version; corrected an overall factor of 1/2 in the 4-graviton correlator