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We present a simple prescription for computing conformal blocks and correlation functions holographically in AdS$_3$ in terms of Wilson lines merging at a bulk vertex. This is shown to reproduce global conformal blocks and heavy-light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Mert Besken , Ashwin Hegde , Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus

Recently there has been progress on the calculation of n-point correlation functions with two "heavy" (with large quantum numbers) states at strong coupling. We extend these findings by computing three-point functions corresponding to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 D. Arnaudov , R. C. Rashkov , T. Vetsov

Holographic duality provides a microscopic interpretation of asymptotically Anti-de Sitter supergravity solutions. The dual states of the field theory give rise to expectation values of light operators. These expectation values correspond…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 David Turton , Alexander Tyukov

We provide a holographic prescription to compute real-time thermal correlators with arbitrary operator ordering. In field theory, these correlation functions are captured by a multi-fold Schwinger-Keldysh time contour. We propose a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 Martin Ammon , Jette Germerodt , Christoph Sieling , Julio Virrueta

We give a detailed account of the methods introduced in [1] to calculate holographic four-point correlators in IIB supergravity on $AdS_5 \times S^5$. Our approach relies entirely on general consistency conditions and maximal supersymmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Leonardo Rastelli , Xinan Zhou

We present the holographic predictions for cosmological 3-point correlators, involving both scalar and tensor modes, for a universe which started in a non-geometric holographic phase. Holographic formulae relate the cosmological 3-point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-11 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

We bootstrap tree-level supergravity four-point correlators on AdS$_5\times$S$^5$ with one external half-BPS double-particle operator and three half-BPS single-particle operators. Our only input is the consistency of the operator product…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Francesco Aprile , Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo , Joao Vilas Boas

We study general correlation functions of various quantum field theories in the holographic setup. Following the holographic proposal, we investigate correlation functions via a geodesic length connecting boundary operators. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Hanse Kim , Jitendra Pal , Chanyong Park

We consider a semiclassical (large string tension ~ \lambda^1/2) limit of 4-point correlator of two "heavy" vertex operators with large quantum numbers and two "light" operators. It can be written in a factorized form as a product of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-18 E. I. Buchbinder , A. A. Tseytlin

We explore conformally coupled scalar theory in AdS$_{6}$ extensively and their classical solutions by employing power expansion order by order in its self-interaction coupling $\lambda$. We study holographic correlation functions of scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Jae-Hyuk Oh

We consider $\mathcal{N}=2$ superconformal quiver gauge theories in four dimensions and evaluate the chiral/anti-chiral correlators of single-trace operators. We show that it is convenient to form particular twisted and untwisted…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-10 M. Billo , M. Frau , F. Galvagno , A. Lerda , A. Pini

We consider structure constants of single-trace operators at strong coupling in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM theory using the hexagon formalism. We concentrate on heavy-heavy-light correlators where the heavy operators are BMN operators, with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Benjamin Basso , De-liang Zhong

We study correlation functions of scalar operators on the boundary of the $AdS_3$ space deformed by moving massive particles in the context of the AdS/CFT duality. To calculate two-point correlation functions we use the geodesic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-15 D. S. Ageev , I. Ya. Aref'eva , M. D. Tikhanovskaya

We evaluate three-point correlation functions of single trace operators in N=4 SYM at both weak and strong coupling. We focus on the case where two of the operators belong in a SL(2) sub-sector, and are dual to string solutions in a broad…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 George Georgiou

We use holographic techniques to compute two-point functions of operators belonging to a conserved current supermultiplet in theories which break supersymmetry at strong coupling. These are the relevant quantities one has to compute in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Riccardo Argurio , Matteo Bertolini , Lorenzo Di Pietro , Flavio Porri , Diego Redigolo

Motivated by AdS/CFT, we address the following outstanding question in large $N$ conformal field theory: given the appearance of a single-trace operator in the ${\cal O}\times{\cal O}$ OPE of a scalar primary ${\cal O}$, what is its total…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-09 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi , Eric Perlmutter

We compute correlators of two heavy and two light operators in the strong coupling and large $c$ limit of the D1D5 CFT which is dual to weakly coupled AdS$_3$ gravity. The light operators have dimension two and are scalar descendants of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Alessandro Bombini , Andrea Galliani , Stefano Giusto , Emanuele Moscato , Rodolfo Russo

We study a simple class of correlators with two heavy and two light operators both in the D1D5 CFT and in the dual AdS$_3 \times S^3 \times T^4$ description. On the CFT side we focus on the free orbifold point and discuss how these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-12 Andrea Galliani , Stefano Giusto , Emanuele Moscato , Rodolfo Russo

We consider the four-point function of the lowest scalar in the stress-energy tensor multiplet in $\mathcal{N}=8$ ABJ(M) theory \cite{Aharony:2008ug, Aharony:2008gk}. At large central charge $c_T\sim N^{3/2}$, this correlator is given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-18 Shai M. Chester

We study holographic defect conformal field theories which are dual to probe branes with bottom-up methods. First we determine the embedding of codimension-1 interface branes in AdS space. Then we compute defect one and two-point functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-09 Georgios Linardopoulos , Chanyong Park