Spin-resolved double-trace thermal coefficients in holography
Abstract
It was previously shown that the stress-tensor sector of the OPE, together with the KMS condition, fixes holographic thermal two-point functions at vanishing spatial separation. We extend this construction to nonzero spatial separation, where the KMS condition leaves a residual ambiguity that depends only on the spatial separation. We show that this ambiguity is fixed by the zero-frequency bulk wave equation, which can be solved analytically in terms of Heun functions. This gives an efficient method for computing thermal coefficients of double-trace operators resolved by spin. We also study the Lorentzian analytic structure of the resulting correlator and show that complex bulk-cone singularities which appear at spacelike separation in the stress-tensor sector do not persist in the full two-point function; they are resolved by the double-trace contribution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.24499,
title = {Spin-resolved double-trace thermal coefficients in holography},
author = {Ilija Burić and Ivan Gusev and Andrei Parnachev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.24499},
year = {2026}
}