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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

In this paper, we study excited states in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space prepared by local operator insertions of a massive scalar field, corresponding to local operator quenches in a free bulk scalar theory. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-27 Dmitry S. Ageev , Vladimir A. Bykov

We develop a framework for the reconstruction of the bulk theory dual to conformal field theory (CFT) without any assumption by means of a flow equation. To this end we investigate a minimal extension of the free flow equation and find that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-24 Sinya Aoki , Janos Balog , Tetsuya Onogi , Shuichi Yokoyama

In this paper we study the AdS/CFT correspondence in the operator formalism without assuming the GKPW relation. We explicitly show that the low energy spectrum of the large N limit of CFT, which is realized by a strong coupling gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Seiji Terashima

We explore the extent to which a local string theory dynamics in anti-de Sitter space can be determined from its proposed Conformal Field Theory (CFT) description. Free fields in the bulk are constructed from the CFT operators, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Tom Banks , Michael R. Douglas , Gary T. Horowitz , Emil Martinec

We revisit the reconstruction of a free quantum field in 4-dimensional Lorentzian Anti-de-Sitter (AdS$_4$) spacetime in terms of primary operators in the boundary 3d CFT (CFT$_3$). We show that the positive and negative energy subspaces of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Núria Navarro , Ana-Maria Raclariu

The goal of these notes is to introduce, in a very elementary way, the idea of the anti de-Sitter/Conformal Field Theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence to condensed matter physicists. This theory relates a gravity theory in a (d+1)- dimensional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-07-01 A S T Pires

We study operators with large internal charge in boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) with internal symmetries. Using the state-operator correspondence and the existence of a macroscopic limit, we find a non-trivial relation between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-03 Gabriel Cuomo , Márk Mezei , Avia Raviv-Moshe

In this work we expand on the holographic description of CFTs on de Sitter (dS) and anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes and examine how violations of the unitarity bound in the boundary theory are recovered in the bulk physics. To this end we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-21 Tomas Andrade , Christoph F. Uhlemann

The AdS/CFT correspondence is applied to a close analogue of the little hierarchy problem in $AdS_{d+1}$, $d \geq 3$. The new mechanism requires a Maxwell field that gauges a $U(1)_R$ symmetry in a bulk supergravity theory with a negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-08 Xi Dong , Daniel Z. Freedman , Yue Zhao

We discuss the flat space limit of AdS using the momentum space representation of CFT correlators. The flat space limit involves sending the AdS radius and the dimensions of operators dual to massive fields to infinity while also scaling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-11 Raffaele Marotta , Kostas Skenderis , Mritunjay Verma

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to calculate CFT correlation functions of vector and spinor fields. The connection between the AdS and boundary fields is properly treated via a Dirichlet boundary value problem.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 W. Mück , K. S. Viswanathan

This work explores the celebrated AdS/CFT correspondence in the regime of high energy scattering in Anti--de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. In particular, we develop the eikonal approximation to high energy scattering in AdS and explore its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-06 Joao Penedones

The AdS/CFT correspondence is an exact duality between string theory in anti-de Sitter space and conformal field theories on its boundary. Inspired in this correspondence some relations between strings and non conformal field theories have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Henrique Boschi-Filho , Nelson R. F. Braga

We consider the CFT that arises from the D1-D5 system in the presence of a constant background gauge potential which couples to the R-charge of the theory: this potential effectively changes the periodicities of the fermions. By the AdS/CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Samir D. Mathur

We study a simple version of the AdS/CFT (anti-de Sitter spacetime/Conformal Field Theory) correspondence, where operators have integer conformal dimensions. In this model, bulk causality follows from boundary analyticity, even in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-30 David A. Lowe

We study nonperturbative aspects of quantum field theory (QFT) in rigid anti de Sitter (AdS) spacetime using quantum information theoretic methods. While irreversibility of renormalization group (RG) flows is well established in flat space,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-12 Nicolás Abate , Ignacio Salazar , Gonzalo Torroba

Yang-Mills theory in AdS$_{4}$ with Dirichlet boundary conditions is expected to undergo a transition as the AdS radius varies, since the boundary data is incompatible with confinement in flat space. Various mechanisms have been proposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Marco Meineri , Alessandro Piazza , Marco Serone , Alessandro Vichi

The holographic principle, being a generic feature of quantum gravity, should allow for the consideration of dualities other than AdS/CFT. The AdS/BCFT correspondence, in which the dual field theory has local conformal symmetry and is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-20 Sanjit Shashi

We investigate $O(N)$ boundary conformal field theories (BCFTs) with boundary interactions in $d=4-\epsilon$ and $d=3-\epsilon$ employing the analytic bootstrap. By deriving universal constraints on conformal data, we show that infinitely…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Xinyu Sun , Shao-Kai Jian , Hong Yao