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We provide a comprehensive overview of the current status of higher-codimension defect systems. We review the holographic description and field theoretic properties of codimension-2 defects within the framework of defect Conformal Field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Zoakos

We holographically calculate two-point functions in the pseudo-conformal universe, an early universe alternative to inflation. The pseudo-conformal universe can be modeled as a defect conformal field theory, where the reheating surface is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-04 Mariana Carrillo-Gonzalez , Kurt Hinterbichler , James Stokes , Mark Trodden

We study two-point functions of single-trace half-BPS operators in the presence of a supersymmetric Wilson line in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. We use inversion formula technology in order to reconstruct the CFT data starting from a single…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-30 Julien Barrat , Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Pedro Liendo

We study the contact terms that appear in the correlation functions of exactly marginal operators using the AdS/CFT correspondence. It is known that CFT with an exactly marginal deformation requires the existence of the contact terms with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-14 Tadakatsu Sakai , Masashi Zenkai

In this work, we study the $\frac{1}{8}$-BPS heavy-heavy-light-light correlators in the D1D5 CFT and its holographic dual. On the field theory side, we compute the fermionic four-point correlators at the free orbifold point. On the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Jia Tian , Jue Hou , Bin Chen

We present an exact formula for the thermal scalar two-point function in four-dimensional holographic conformal field theories. The problem of finding it reduces to the analysis of the wave equation on the AdS-Schwarzschild background. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Matthew Dodelson , Alba Grassi , Cristoforo Iossa , Daniel Panea Lichtig , Alexander Zhiboedov

We study one and two point functions of conformal field theories on spaces of maximal symmetry with and without boundaries and investigate their spectral representations. Integral transforms are found, relating the spectral decomposition to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Kurt Hinterbichler , James Stokes , Mark Trodden

We compute correlation functions, specifically 1-point and 2-point functions, in holographic boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) using geodesic approximation. The holographic model consists of a massive scalar field coupled to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Jani Kastikainen , Sanjit Shashi

We calculate holographically three-point functions of scalar operators with large dimensions at finite density and finite temperature. To achieve this, we construct new solutions that involve two isometries of the deformed internal space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Zoakos

Type IIB string theory admits Janus solutions connecting $\text{AdS}_5$ vacua. These geometries correspond to interface conformal field theories and are naturally described in five-dimensional supergravity as $\text{AdS}_4$ foliations over…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-11 Federico Faedo , Nicolò Petri , Alessia Segati

In frames of dS/CFT correspondence suggested by Strominger we calculate holographic conformal anomaly for dual euclidean CFT. The holographic renormalization group method is used for this purpose. It is explicitly demonstrated that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

In this paper we calculate two-point correlation functions of a massive probe scalar field in the background of the three-dimensional Janus solution. We relate the equation of motion of the scalar to Heun's equation and use the recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-24 Michael Gutperle , Christina Yeo

Two-point functions in BCFTs exhibit characteristic singularities compared to standard CFTs due to reflected light cones. In holographic BCFTs, further singularities, which need not be related to reflected light cones within the BCFT, can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-16 Dongming He , Christoph F. Uhlemann

We discuss consequences of the breaking of conformal symmetry by a flat or spherical extended operator. We adapt the embedding formalism to the study of correlation functions of symmetric traceless tensors in the presence of the defect.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-26 Marco Billò , Vasco Gonçalves , Edoardo Lauria , Marco Meineri

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 study the holographic dual of a topological symmetry operator in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Symmetry operators arise from topological field theories localized on a subspace of the boundary CFT spacetime. We use bottom up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Chitraang Murdia

In this work we consider domain walls and end-of-the-world branes in AdS/CFT, holographically dual to codimension-one conformal defects and conformal boundaries respectively. In this setting there is an analogue of the ``bulk point''…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-05 William Harvey , Kristan Jensen , Takahiro Uzu

We revisit the holographic calculation of the decay modes of the BTZ blackhole perturbed by a scalar probe. We carry out a finite temperature expansion of the torus two point function of large central charge $(c)$ CFTs in order to obtain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Sanchari Pal

We study 2-point and 3-point functions in CFT at finite temperature for large dimension operators using holography. The 2-point function leads to a universal formula for the holographic free energy in $d$ dimensions in terms of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 D. Rodriguez-Gomez , J. G. Russo

We derive a dispersion relation for two-point correlation functions in defect conformal field theories. The correlator is expressed as an integral over a (single) discontinuity that is controlled by the bulk channel operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Lorenzo Bianchi , Davide Bonomi