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We show that AdS amplitudes are CFT correlators to all orders in the loop expansion by showing that they obey the conformal Ward identities. In particular, we provide explicit formulas for the constants and functions of cross-ratios that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Maximo Bañados , Ernesto Bianchi , Ivan Muñoz , Kostas Skenderis

We generalize Regge theory to correlation functions in conformal field theories. This is done by exploring the analogy between Mellin amplitudes in AdS/CFT and S-matrix elements. In the process, we develop the conformal partial wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-24 Miguel S. Costa , Vasco Goncalves , Joao Penedones

We explore the use of the differential representation of AdS amplitudes to compute Witten diagrams. The differential representation expresses AdS amplitudes in terms of conformal generators acting on contact Witten diagrams, which allows us…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Yue-Zhou Li , Jiajie Mei

We provide a new general setting for scalar interacting fields on the covering of a d+1-dimensional AdS spacetime. The formalism is used at first to construct a one-paramater family of field theories, each living on a corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bertola , J. Bros , U. Moschella , R. Schaeffer

Line defects and scattering amplitudes have proven to be fruitful objects of study in the context of holographic dualities. They serve as valuable theoretical laboratories for the development of non-perturbative methods and have provided…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-18 Martín Lagares

We prove a precise form of AdS bulk locality by deriving analytical two-sided bounds on bulk Wilson coefficients. Our bounds are on the Wilson coefficients themselves, rather than their ratios, as is typically found in the literature.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-22 Faizan Bhat , Ahmadullah Zahed

We show that the one-loop on-shell four-point scattering amplitude of massless $\phi^4$ scalar field theory in 4D Minkowski space time, when Mellin transformed to the Celestial sphere at infinity, transforms covariantly under the global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Nabamita Banerjee , Shamik Banerjee , Sayali Atul Bhatkar , Sachin Jain

The AdS/CFT correspondence is a powerful tool to study the properties of conformal QCD at strong coupling in terms of a higher dimensional dual gravity theory. The power-law falloff of scattering amplitudes in the non-perturbative regime…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Guy F. de Teramond , Stanley J. Brodsky

Inspired in the AdS/CFT correspondence one can look for dualities between string theory and non conformal field theories. Exact dualities in the non conformal case are intricate but approximations can be helpful in extracting physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Henrique Boschi-Filho , Nelson R. F. Braga

The scattering theory of the integrable statistical models can be generalized to the case of systems with extended lines of defect. This is done by adding the reflection and transmission amplitudes for the interactions with the line of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Delfino , G. Mussardo , P. Simonetti

We define form factors and scattering amplitudes in Conformal Field Theory as the coefficient of the singularity of the Fourier transform of time-ordered correlation functions, as $p^2 \to 0$. In particular, we study a form factor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Marc Gillioz , Marco Meineri , Joao Penedones

We study gluon scattering amplitudes/Wilson loops in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling by calculating the area of the minimal surfaces in AdS_3 based on the associated thermodynamic Bethe ansatz system. The remainder function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-25 Yasuyuki Hatsuda , Katsushi Ito , Kazuhiro Sakai , Yuji Satoh

We revisit the calculation of holographic correlation functions in IIB supergravity on $AdS_5\times S^5$. Results for four-point functions simplify drastically when expressed in Mellin space. We conjecture a compact formula for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Leonardo Rastelli , Xinan Zhou

We present a systematic study of holographic correlators in a vast array of SCFTs with non-maximal superconformal symmetry. These theories include 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs from D3-branes near F-theory singularities, 5d Seiberg exceptional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-20 Luis F. Alday , Connor Behan , Pietro Ferrero , Xinan Zhou

We revisit the prescription commonly used to define holographic correlators on the celestial sphere of Minkowski space as an integral transform of flat space scattering amplitudes, known as celestial amplitudes. We propose a resolution to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-23 Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

We investigate a new algebra-based approach of finding Grassmannian formulas for scattering amplitudes. Our prime motivation is massive amplitudes of 4D $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM, and therefore we consider a 6D Grassmannian formula, where we can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-06 Klaus Bering , Michal Pazderka

The Euklidean correlation functions and vacuum expectation values of products of field operators of some Lorentz spin and dimension are expressed through Mellin amplitudes which depend on complex dimensions subject to linear constraints.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-15 Gerhard Mack

We introduce a bosonic ambitwistor string theory in AdS space. Even though the theory is anomalous at the quantum level, one can nevertheless use it in the classical limit to derive a novel formula for correlation functions of boundary CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Lorenz Eberhardt , Shota Komatsu , Sebastian Mizera

The bulk point singularity limit of conformal correlation functions in Lorentzian signature acts as a microscope to look into local bulk physics in AdS. From it we can extract flat space scattering processes localized in AdS that ultimate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Carlos Cardona

There are holographic superconformal theories in all dimensions between two and six which allow arbitrary tree-level four-point functions to be fixed by basic consistency conditions. Although Mellin space is usually the most efficient…

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