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Spinning AdS Loop Diagrams: Two Point Functions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-08-03 v2

Abstract

We develop a systematic approach to evaluating AdS loop amplitudes based on the spectral (or "split") representation of bulk-to-bulk propagators, which re-expresses loop diagrams in terms of spectral integrals and higher-point tree diagrams. In this work we focus on 2pt one-loop Witten diagrams involving totally symmetric fields of arbitrary mass and integer spin. As an application of this framework, we study the contribution to the anomalous dimension of higher-spin currents generated by bubble diagrams in higher-spin gauge theories on AdS.

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@article{arxiv.1708.08404,
  title  = {Spinning AdS Loop Diagrams: Two Point Functions},
  author = {Simone Giombi and Charlotte Sleight and Massimo Taronna},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.08404},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

54+23 pages, 15 figures. v2: Section 2.2 added with more details on the analytic evaluation of anomalous dimensions from bubble diagrams. References added, matches published version

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