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We study four types of one-point torus blocks arising in the large central charge regime. According to different limits of conformal dimensions we distinguish between the global block, the light block, the heavy-light block, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 K. B. Alkalaev , R. V. Geiko , V. A. Rappoport

We consider a model of 3d quantum gravity defined by $n$ copies of a rational Virasoro TQFT with central charge $1/2$, summed over all 3d topologies. This theory is holographically dual to an ensemble of all 2d CFTs with central charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-14 Anatoly Dymarsky

We present the construction of BMS$_3$ blocks in a two-dimensional field theory and compare the results with holographic computations involving probe particles propagating in flat space cosmologies. On the field theory side, we generalize…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Eliot Hijano

Virasoro conformal blocks are fixed in principle by symmetry, but a closed-form expression is unknown in the general case. In this work, we provide three closed-form expansions for the four-point Virasoro blocks on the sphere, for arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Eric Perlmutter

By using the approach introduced in arXiv:2107.09677 we construct non-BPS solutions of 6D $(1,0)$ supergravity coupled to two tensor multiplets as a perturbation of AdS$_3\times S^3$. These solutions are both regular and asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-15 Bogdan Ganchev , Stefano Giusto , Anthony Houppe , Rodolfo Russo

We investigate AdS3/CFT2 correspondence in three dimensional supergravity. We construct a current for general coordinate invariance and that for local supersymmetry via covariant approach. Hamiltonian and supercharge are well defined in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Yoshifumi Hyakutake

We develop a new method for decomposing Witten diagrams into conformal blocks. The steps involved are elementary, requiring no explicit integration, and operate directly in position space. Central to this construction is an appealingly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus , Eric Perlmutter , River Snively

The bulk reconstructions in AdS/CFT and its cousins are essential to understand the holographic nature of quantum gravity. In this work, we try to study the bulk reconstruction in the AdS$_3$/WCFT$_2$ correspondence. After deriving the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-30 Yu-han Lin , Bin Chen

In this note we study CFT$_2$ Virasoro conformal blocks with heavy operators in the large-$c$ limit in the context of AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence. We compute the lengths of the holographic Steiner trees dual to the $5$-point and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-20 Mikhail Pavlov

We find a holographic reconstruction formula for gravitational Wilson line network operators in AdS$_2$ evaluated between Ishibashi states of the algebra $sl(2,\mathbb{R})$. It is given in integral form where the integrand is the global…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 K. B. Alkalaev , V. S. Khiteev

We consider large-$c$ $n$-point Virasoro blocks with $n-k$ background heavy operators and $k$ perturbative heavy operators. Conformal dimensions of heavy operators scale linearly with large $c$, while splitting into background/perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 K. B. Alkalaev , Mikhail Pavlov

In this work, we propose a novel holographic method for computing correlation functions of operators in conformal field theories. This method refines previous approaches and is specifically aimed at being applied to heavy operators. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Tengzhou Lai , Ya-Wen Sun , Jia Tian

We chart the breakdown of semiclassical gravity by analyzing the Virasoro conformal blocks to high numerical precision, focusing on the heavy-light limit corresponding to a light probe propagating in a BTZ black hole background. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Hongbin Chen , Charles Hussong , Jared Kaplan , Daliang Li

An effective theory designed to compute Virasoro identity blocks at large central charge, expressed in terms of the propagation of a reparametrization/shadow mode between bilocal vertices, was recently put forward. In this paper I provide…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Kevin Nguyen

Motivated by the question of bulk localization in holography, we study the problem of constructing multi-centered solutions in higher spin gravity which describe point particles in the interior of AdS$_3$. In the Chern-Simons formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Ondrej Hulik , Joris Raeymaekers , Orestis Vasilakis

We study $\mathcal{W}_3$ toroidal conformal blocks for degenerate primary fields in AdS/CFT context. In the large central charge limit $\mathcal{W}_3$ algebra reduces to $\mathfrak{sl}_3$ algebra and $\mathfrak{sl}_3$ blocks are defined as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Vladimir Belavin , Pietro Oreglia , Juan Ramos Cabezas

We study CFT$_2$ Virasoro conformal blocks of the 4-point correlation function $\langle \mathcal{O}_L \mathcal{O}_H \mathcal{O}_H \mathcal{O}_H \rangle $ with three background operators $\mathcal{O}_H$ and one perturbative operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 K. B. Alkalaev , Mikhail Pavlov

In the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ correspondence, physical interest attaches to understanding Virasoro conformal blocks at large central charge and in a kinematical regime of large Lorentzian time separation, $t\sim c$. However, almost no analytical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 Per Kraus , Allic Sivaramakrishnan , River Snively

We extend recent results on semi-classical conformal blocks in 2d CFT and their relation to 3D gravity via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider four-point functions with two heavy and two light external operators, along with the exchange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-27 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus , River Snively

We compute the conformal blocks of the Virasoro minimal model or its W$_N$ extension with large central charge from Wilson line networks in a Chern-Simons theory including loop corrections. In our previous work, we offered a prescription to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 Yasuaki Hikida , Takahiro Uetoko