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The 2-Dimensional Dual of $\phi^4$ in AdS$_3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-04-30 v2

Abstract

We study the correlation functions of a conformally coupled ϕ4\phi^4-interacting theory in AdS3_3 and its dual CFT2_2. The one-loop diagram is not expressible in terms of known transcendental functions, but is shown to be expressible as an infinite sum of previously well-studied tree-level diagrams, and we compute this sum using several number-theoretic conjectures. This enables us to extract recursively, the analytic expressions of anomalous dimensions of all dual double-trace operators. In the ss-channel various consistency checks were performed against established bootstrap method, while our results in the tt- and uu-channel are not available in any previous literature to our knowledge.

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@article{arxiv.2602.05750,
  title  = {The 2-Dimensional Dual of $\phi^4$ in AdS$_3$},
  author = {Weichen Xiao and Ivo Sachs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05750},
  year   = {2026}
}