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We develop a systematic unitarity method for loop-level AdS scattering amplitudes, dual to non-planar CFT correlators, from both bulk and boundary perspectives. We identify cut operators acting on bulk amplitudes that put virtual lines on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 David Meltzer , Eric Perlmutter , Allic Sivaramakrishnan

It is a long-standing conjecture that any CFT with a large central charge and a large gap $\Delta_{\text{gap}}$ in the spectrum of higher-spin single-trace operators must be dual to a local effective field theory in AdS. We prove a sharp…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Simon Caron-Huot , Dalimil Mazac , Leonardo Rastelli , David Simmons-Duffin

We study the $O(N)$ and Gross-Neveu models at large $N$ on AdS$_{d+1}$ background. Thanks to the isometries of AdS, the observables in these theories are constrained by the SO$(d,2)$ conformal group even in the presence of mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Dean Carmi , Lorenzo Di Pietro , Shota Komatsu

We consider three-point correlation functions for superstrings propagating in AdS$_3\times S^3 \times T^4$. In the RNS formalism, these generically involve correlators with current insertions. When vertex operators with non-trivial spectral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-23 Sergio Iguri , Nicolas Kovensky , Julian H. Toro

The AdS boundary correlators and their dual correlation functions of boundary operators have been the main dynamic observables of the holographic duality relating a bulk AdS theory and a boundary conformal field theory. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-06 Aidan Herderschee , Radu Roiban , Fei Teng

We give an elementary proof of the following property of unitary, interacting four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal field theories: at large central charge $c$, there exist at least $\sqrt{c}$ single-trace, scalar superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-01 Eric Perlmutter

We carry out a bootstrap study of four-point correlators in 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ SCFTs which are dual to super Yang-Mills on $AdS_5\times S^3$. We focus on the simplest $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS operators which correspond to the super gluons in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-26 Zhongjie Huang , Bo Wang , Ellis Ye Yuan , Xinan Zhou

The scalar field exchange diagram for the correlation function of four scalar operators is evaluated in anti-de Sitter space, $AdS_{d+1}$. The conformal dimensions $\Delta_i$, $i=1,...,4$ of the scalar operators and the dimension $\Delta$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric D'Hoker , Daniel Z. Freedman

We derive new integral identities for AdS propagators and further develop the Wilson network expansion for AdS Feynman diagrams. In particular, we demonstrate that four-point contact and exchange scalar diagrams in two dimensions can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-25 K. B. Alkalaev , V. S. Khiteev

We obtain a subgroup of the isometry group of $p$AdS (a $p$-adic version of AdS alternative to the Bruhat-Tits tree). We propose a candidate for the scalar bulk action and equation of motion on $p$AdS, and work out analytical expressions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-04 Feng Qu , Yi-hong Gao

We study the renormalization group flow equations for correlation functions of weakly coupled quantum field theories in AdS. Taking the limit where the external points approach the conformal boundary, we obtain a flow of conformally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-27 Markus B. Fröb

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

We study the spectrum of certain two-particle operators in the supergravity regime of the D1-D5 system, focussing on the four-point correlators of tensor multiplets on $AdS_3\times S^3$ at tree level. In Mellin space, these are nicely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-25 Francesco Aprile , Michele Santagata

We develop a Mellin space approach to boundary correlation functions in anti-de Sitter (AdS) and de Sitter (dS) spaces. Using the Mellin-Barnes representation of correlators in Fourier space, we show that the analytic continuation between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

We combine spectral- and split representations to factorize multi-loop momentum space diagrams, in the Schwinger-Keldysh formulation for cosmological correlators, with massive scalars in the loop. This allows us to extend the resummation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Jonathan Gräfe , Ivo Sachs

In this paper, we create a Mellin space method for boundary correlation functions in de Sitter (dS) and anti-de Sitter (AdS) spaces. We demonstrate that the analytic continuation between AdS${}_{d+1}$ and dS${}_{d+1}$ is encoded in a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Sayantan Choudhury

Quantum field theories in AdS generate conformal correlation functions on the boundary, and in the limit where AdS is nearly flat one should be able to extract an S-matrix from such correlators. We discuss a particularly simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-03 Shota Komatsu , Miguel F. Paulos , Balt C. van Rees , Xiang Zhao

We compute the four point function of scalar fields in AdS$_3$ charged under $U(1)$ Chern-Simons fields using the bulk version of the operator state mapping. Then we show how this four point function is reproduced from a CFT$_2$ with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-28 Ville Keranen

We demonstrate how three-point correlation functions of the free scalar U(N) model involving two scalar operators and one spin-$s$ conserved current organize themselves into corresponding AdS amplitudes involving two scalar and one spin-$s$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-23 Shailesh Lal

In this article we investigate the structure of the four-point functions of the $AdS_3$-WZNW model. We consider the integral expression for the unflowed four-point correlator involving at least one state in the discrete part of the spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-29 Yago Cagnacci , Sergio M. Iguri