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In the eternal AdS black hole geometry, we consider two signals sent from the boundaries into the black hole interior shared between the two asymptotic regions. We compute three different out-of-time-order six-point functions to quantify…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-11 Felix M. Haehl , Alexandre Streicher , Ying Zhao

In a class of 2D CFTs with higher spin symmetry, we compute thermal two-point functions of certain scalar primary operators in the presence of nonzero chemical potential for higher spin charge. These are shown to agree with the same…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Matthias R. Gaberdiel , Kewang Jin , Eric Perlmutter

We consider two-point functions of light fields at finite temperature and large real frequencies in holographic theories. The thermal system is dual to a single-sided AdS black hole. We show that the high-frequency expansion obtained from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Nima Afkhami-Jeddi , Simon Caron-Huot , Joydeep Chakravarty , Alexander Maloney

The emergent nature of spacetime geometry and black holes can be directly probed in simple holographic duals of higher spin gravity and tensionless string theory. To this end, we study time dependent thermal correlation functions of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-15 Irene Amado , Bo Sundborg , Larus Thorlacius , Nico Wintergerst

We point out that the entropy of (near) extremal black holes can be interpreted as the entanglement entropy of dual conformal quantum mechanics via AdS2/CFT1. As an explicit example, we study near extremal BTZ black holes and derive this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tatsuo Azeyanagi , Tatsuma Nishioka , Tadashi Takayanagi

The AdS/CFT correspondence is established for the AdS_3 space compactified on a solid torus with the CFT field on the boundary. Correlation functions that correspond to the bulk theory at finite temperature are obtained in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Chekhov

In this paper, based on the $ AdS_{2}/CFT_{1} $ prescription, we explore the low frequency behavior of quantum two point functions for a special class of strongly coupled CFTs in one dimension whose dual gravitational counterpart consists…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-01 Dibakar Roychowdhury

We study analytic properties of thermal spectral functions of holographic CFTs, examining both their (a) exact properties at finite momentum and (b) asymptotics at large momentum. For even-dimensional holographic CFTs on Minkowski spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Hewei Frederic Jia , Mukund Rangamani

Finite temperature correlation functions in integrable quantum field theories are formulated only in terms of the usual, temperature-independent form factors, and certain thermodynamic filling fractions which are determined from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Leclair , G. Mussardo

We investigate black hole formation by a spherically collapsing thin shell of matter in AdS space. This process has been suggested to have a holographic interpretation as thermalization of the CFT on the boundary of the AdS space. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Ulf H. Danielsson , Esko Keski-Vakkuri , Martin Kruczenski

We calculate holographically one and two-point functions of scalar operators at finite density and/or finite temperature. In the case of finite density and zero temperature we argue that only scalar operators can have non-zero VEVs. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Zoakos

Boundary correlation functions provide insight into the emergence of an effective geometry in higher spin gravity duals of O(N) or U(N) symmetric field theories. On a compact manifold, the singlet constraint leads to nontrivial dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Irene Amado , Bo Sundborg , Larus Thorlacius , Nico Wintergerst

Equilibrium finite temperature observables of a CFT can be described by a local effective action for background fields -- a "thermal effective action." This effective action determines the asymptotic density of states of a CFT as a detailed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-16 Nathan Benjamin , Jaeha Lee , Hirosi Ooguri , David Simmons-Duffin

We develop a computationally tractable method for calculating correlation functions of the finite temperature trapped Bose gas that includes the effects of s-wave interactions. Our approach uses a classical field method to model the low…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-09-11 A. Bezett , E. Toth , P. B. Blakie

We compute the exact retarded Green's functions in thermal $CFT$s with chemical potential and angular momenta using holography respectively. We consider the field equations satisfied by the quasi-normal modes in both charged and rotating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-27 Atanu Bhatta , Taniya Mandal

We consider holographic duals of $2$-dimensional conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, interface, defect and/or junction, referred to collectively as BCFTs. In general, the presence of a boundary reduces the $SO(2,2)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 John Estes

We study the quantum-mechanical corrections to two point particles accelerated by a strut in a 2+1 D flat background. Since the particles are accelerating, we use finite temperature techniques to compute the Green's function of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Mohamed M. Anber

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) are special classes of quantum field theories that find applications ranging from critical phenomena to theories of quantum gravity via holography. Understanding thermal effects in CFTs is crucial:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Alessio Miscioscia

Two-point correlation functions are ubiquitous tools of modern cosmology, appearing in disparate topics ranging from cosmological inflation to late-time astrophysics. When the background spacetime is maximally symmetric, invariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Oton H. Marcori , Thiago S. Pereira

We compute thermal holographic correlators by combining their analytic structure with the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) condition and multi-stress tensor OPE coefficients determined from the dual AdS description. We focus on two-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-14 Julien Barrat , Deniz N. Bozkurt , Enrico Marchetto , Alessio Miscioscia , Elli Pomoni