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We study logarithmic conformal field theory (LogCFT) in four dimensions using conformal bootstrap techniques in the large spin limit. We focus on the constraints imposed by conformal symmetry on the four point function of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-24 Pinaki Banerjee , Parijat Dey

We formulate four-dimensional conformal gravity with (Anti-)de Sitter boundary conditions that are weaker than Starobinsky boundary conditions, allowing for an asymptotically subleading Rindler term concurrent with a recent model for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-22 D. Grumiller , M. Irakleidou , I. Lovrekovic , R. McNees

Conformal block is a function of many variables, usually represented as a formal series, with coefficients which are certain matrix elements in the chiral (e.g. Virasoro) algebra. Non-perturbative conformal block is a multi-valued function,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 H. Itoyama , A. Mironov , A. Morozov

It is known that the $(a,c)$ central charges in four-dimensional CFTs are linear combinations of the three independent OPE coefficients of the stress-tensor three-point function. In this paper, we adopt the holographic approach using AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Yue-Zhou Li , H. Lu , Liang Ma

We probe the conformal block structure of a scalar four-point function in $d\geq2$ conformal field theories by including higher-order derivative terms in a bulk gravitational action. We consider a heavy-light four-point function as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-27 A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Kuo-Wei Huang

Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, computational complexity for reduced density matrices of holographic conformal field theories has been conjectured to be related to certain geometric observables in the dual gravity theory. We study this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Marius Gerbershagen , Juan Hernandez , Mikhail Khramtsov , Maria Knysh

We describe and study a holographic construction of big-bang / big-crunch cosmological spacetimes where the matter consists of a lattice of black holes. The cosmological spacetime is dual to an entangled state of a collection of holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Abhisek Sahu , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We investigate the structure of conformal manifolds around AdS$_3 \times S^3$ which lift from continuous flat directions in the scalar potential of gauged supergravity resulting from six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(1,1)$ supergravity. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Bastien Duboeuf , Camille Eloy , Gabriel Larios

We investigate the structure of logarithmic modes in critical topologically massive gravity (CTMG) at the chiral point $\mu \ell=1$ from the perspective of analytic continuation and monodromy. Starting from the degeneration of massive and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Yannick Mvondo-She

In this paper we continue to develop further our prescription [arXiv:1602.02962] to holographically compute the conformal partial waves of CFT correlation functions using the gravitational open Wilson network operators in the bulk. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Atanu Bhatta , Prashanth Raman , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

In two-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT), multi-stress tensor exchanges between probe operators give rise to the Virasoro identity conformal block, which is fixed by symmetry. The analogous object, and the corresponding organizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Felix M. Haehl , Kuo-Wei Huang

We consider the non-local operator ${\mathcal T}$ defined in 2-dimensional CFTs by the path integral over a torus with two punctures. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the spectrum and ground state of this operator in holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Donald Marolf , Jason Wien

Known holographic dictionaries, especially AdS/CFT, rely on symmetry matching between the bulk and the boundary. We take a step toward a holographic dictionary with no symmetry requirement and without assuming the geometry being…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Tamra Nebabu , Xiao-Liang Qi , Haifeng Tang , Huaijin Wang

We calculate, for the first time, three-point correlation functions involving "heavy" operators in the Schrodinger/null-dipole CFT correspondence at strong coupling. In particular, we focus on the three-point functions of the dilaton modes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Zoakos

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 consider the holographic duality between type-A higher-spin gravity in AdS_4 and the free U(N) vector model. In the bulk, linearized solutions can be translated into twistor functions via the Penrose transform. We propose a holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-30 Yasha Neiman

We provide a natural generalization to submanifolds of the holographic method used to extract higher-order local invariants of both Riemannian and conformal embeddings, some of which depend on a choice of parallelization of the normal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-07 Samuel Blitz , Josef Šilhan

The Holographic Wess--Zumino (HWZ) consistency conditions are shown through a step by step mapping of renormalization group flows to Hamiltonian systems, to lead to the Holographic anomaly. These conditions codify how the energy scale, when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-02 Vasudev Shyam

We explore the two holographic complexity proposals for the case of a 2d boundary CFT with a conformal defect. We focus on a Randall-Sundrum type model of a thin AdS$_2$ brane embedded in AdS$_3$. We find that, using the "complexity=volume"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 Shira Chapman , Dongsheng Ge , Giuseppe Policastro

We re-examine holographic versions of the c-theorem and entanglement entropy in the context of higher curvature gravity and the AdS/CFT correspondence. We select the gravity theories by tuning the gravitational couplings to eliminate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-22 Robert C. Myers , Aninda Sinha