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The spectrum of half-BPS single-particle operators of the D1-D5 system in the supergravity regime is dual to the spectrum of Kaluza-Klein modes of tensor and graviton multiplets in AdS$_3\times$S$^3$. We present simple formulae for all…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 F. Aprile , C. Behan , R. S. Pitombo , M. Santagata

We argue that the recently discovered integrability in the large-N CFT/AdS system is equivalent to diffractionless scattering of the corresponding hidden elementary excitations. This suggests that, perhaps, the key tool for finding the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Staudacher

In this paper, we explore the open string amplitude's dual role as a space-time S-matrix and a 1D CFT correlation function. We pursue this correspondence in two directions. First, beginning with a general disk integrand dressed with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Yu-tin Huang , Jin-Yu Liu , Laurentiu Rodina , Yihong Wang

We explore the analytic structure of the three-channel $S$ matrix by generalizing uniformization and making a single-valued map for the three-channel $S$ matrix. First, by means of the inverse Jacobi's elliptic function we construct a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-09 Wren A. Yamada , Osamu Morimatsu , Toru Sato

The locality of bulk physics at distances below the AdS length is one of the remarkable aspects of AdS/CFT duality, and one of the least tested. It requires that the AdS radius be large compared to the Planck length and the string length.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Idse Heemskerk , Joao Penedones , Joseph Polchinski , James Sully

Both celestial and momentum space amplitudes in four dimensions are beset by divergences resulting from spacetime translation and sometimes scale invariance. In this paper we consider a (linearized) marginal deformation of the celestial CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Eduardo Casali , Walker Melton , Andrew Strominger

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 consider $\alpha'$ corrections to the one-loop four-point correlator of the stress-tensor multiplet in $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills at order $1/N^4$. Holographically, this is dual to string corrections of the one-loop supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-16 J. M. Drummond , H. Paul

We study four-point functions of arbitrary half-BPS operators in a 4-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFT with flavour group $SO(8)$ at genus-zero and strong 't Hooft coupling, corresponding - via AdS/CFT - to the ($\alpha'$ expansion of the)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-11 R. Glew , M. Santagata

We elaborate on a new recursive method proposed in arXiv:2312.15484 for computing tree-level $n$-point supergluon amplitudes as well as those with one gluon, i.e., spinning amplitudes, in ${\rm AdS}_5 \times S^3$. We present an improved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-23 Qu Cao , Song He , Xiang Li , Yichao Tang

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

The AdS/CFT correspondence between theories in AdS space and conformal field theories in physical space-time provides an analytic, semi-classical, color-confining model for strongly-coupled QCD. The soft-wall AdS/QCD model modified by a…

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

We continue our study of string correlators on Euclidean $\text{AdS}_3$ with pure NS-NS flux. The worldsheet and spacetime correlators have a rich analytic structure, which we analyse completely for genus 0 four-point functions. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Andrea Dei , Lorenz Eberhardt

We explore the space of consistent three-particle couplings in $\mathbb Z_2$-symmetric two-dimensional QFTs using two first-principles approaches. Our first approach relies solely on unitarity, analyticity and crossing symmetry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Alexandre Homrich , Joao Penedones , Jonathan Toledo , Balt C. van Rees , Pedro Vieira

Non-perturbative limitations on low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) based on the characteristics of high-energy theory are provided by the analyticity of the flat-space version of the S-matrix. Although the analyticity of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Sayantan Choudhury

Matrix theory and the AdS/CFT correspondence provide nonperturbative holographic formulations of string theory. In both cases the finite N theories can be thought of as infrared regulated versions of flat space string theory in which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Leonard Susskind

We propose a new approach towards analytically solving for the dynamical content of Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) using the bootstrap philosophy. This combines the original bootstrap idea of Polyakov with the modern technology of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-01 Rajesh Gopakumar , Apratim Kaviraj , Kallol Sen , Aninda Sinha

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 review recent progress on computing scattering amplitudes of planar N=4 super Yang-Mills at strong coupling by using the AdS/CFT duality. We do explicit computations by using both, dimensional regularization and a cut-off in the radial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis F. Alday

In this note we consider the four-point function of identical scalar operators in its Mellin representation. For CFTs, taking the large scaling dimension limit of the Mellin amplitude yields the flat-space S-matrix. Using this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-06 Carlos Cardona , Yu-tin Huang , Tsung-Hsuan Tsai