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Unitary 4-point correlators from classical geometries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-02-14 v2

Abstract

We compute correlators of two heavy and two light operators in the strong coupling and large cc limit of the D1D5 CFT which is dual to weakly coupled AdS3_3 gravity. The light operators have dimension two and are scalar descendants of the chiral primaries considered in arXiv:1705.09250, while the heavy operators belong to an ensemble of Ramond-Ramond ground states. We derive a general expression for these correlators when the heavy states in the ensemble are close to the maximally spinning ground state. For a particular family of heavy states we also provide a result valid for any value of the spin. In all cases we find that the correlators depend non-trivially on the CFT moduli and are not determined by the symmetries of the theory, however they have the properties expected for correlators among pure states in a unitary theory, in particular they do not decay at large Lorentzian times.

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@article{arxiv.1710.06820,
  title  = {Unitary 4-point correlators from classical geometries},
  author = {Alessandro Bombini and Andrea Galliani and Stefano Giusto and Emanuele Moscato and Rodolfo Russo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.06820},
  year   = {2018}
}

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31 pages; v2: one observation added

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