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We compute the correlation function between a circular half-BPS Wilson loop (or straight Wilson line) and a local operator in ABJM theory utilizing its M-theory description. The local operator can be a $1/3$-BPS single-trace chiral primary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Xiao-Yi Zhang , Yunfeng Jiang , Jun-Bao Wu

We study the propagation of a massless minimally coupled scalar in the near horizon geometry of non-extremal NS5-branes. Using the holographic principle for dilatonic backgrounds we compute the two-point function of an operator in Little…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Narayan , Mukund Rangamani

We consider the four-point correlator of the stress-energy tensor multiplet in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM. In the planar limit and at large 't Hooft coupling such correlator is given by the corresponding holographic correlation function in IIB…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-01 Luis F. Alday , Agnese Bissi

We examine three point functions with two scalar operators and a higher spin current in 2d W_N minimal model to the next non-trivial order in 1/N expansion. The minimal model was proposed to be dual to a 3d higher spin gauge theory, and 1/N…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Yasuaki Hikida , Takahiro Uetoko

We consider conformal blocks of two heavy operators and an arbitrary number of light operators in a (1+1)-d CFT with large central charge. Using the monodromy method, these higher-point conformal blocks are shown to factorize into products…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-27 Pinaki Banerjee , Shouvik Datta , Ritam Sinha

Thermal two-point functions in holographic CFTs receive contributions from two parts. One part comes from the identity, the stress tensor and multi-stress tensors and constitutes the stress-tensor sector. The other part consists of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Ilija Burić , Ivan Gusev , Andrei Parnachev

One of the most important problems in any conformal field theory is the calculation of three-point functions of primary operators. In this paper we provide explicit examples of correlators with two scalar operators in $\,{\cal N}=4$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 D. Arnaudov , R. C. Rashkov

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 consider the 2-point function of string vertex operators representing string state with large spin in AdS_5. We compute this correlator in the semiclassical approximation and show that it has the expected (on the basis of state-operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-08-24 E. I. Buchbinder , A. A. Tseytlin

Heavy-heavy-light-light (HHLL) correlators of pairwise identical scalars in CFTs with a large central charge in any number of dimensions admit a double scaling limit where the ratio of the heavy conformal dimension to the central charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Andrei Parnachev

Multiparticle correlators are mathematical objects frequently encountered in quantum field theory and collider physics. By translating multiparticle correlators into the language of graph theory, we can gain new insights into their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Patrick T. Komiske , Eric M. Metodiev , Jesse Thaler

We study correlation functions of two AdS giant gravitons in AdS$_5\times S^5$ and a BPS supergravity mode using holography. In the gauge theory these are described by BPS correlators of Schur polynomials of fully-symmetric representations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Adolfo Holguin , Wayne W. Weng

We study spacetime four-point functions of chiral primary operators for superstrings propagating in AdS$_3\times S^3\times T^4$ from the worldsheet perspective, allowing for external states with arbitrary spectral flow charges. We work at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-20 Emiliano Barone , Sergio Iguri , Nicolas Kovensky , Julian H. Toro

We develop a systematic method to constrain any n-point correlation function of spinning operators in Large N Slightly Broken Higher Spin (SBHS) theories. As an illustration of the methodology, we work out the three point functions which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-26 Prabhav Jain , Sachin Jain , Bibhut Sahoo , Dhruva K. S , Aashna Zade

We consider the leading large string tension correction to correlation functions of three vertex operators of particular massive string states in AdS_5 x S^5 string theory. We assume that two of these states are "heavy" carrying large spins…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-24 R. Roiban , A. A. Tseytlin

In this study, we explore the correlation functions of thin-shell operators, represented semiclassically by a homogeneous, thin interface of dust particles. Employing the monodromy method, we successfully compute the contribution from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-31 Bin Chen , Yuefeng Liu , Boyang Yu

We continue our study of multipoint correlators of scalar fields on the $1d$ defect CFT generated by inserting operators along the Maldacena-Wilson line in $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM. We present a weak-coupling recursion relation that captures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-28 Julien Barrat , Pedro Liendo , Giulia Peveri

We compute exactly various 4-point correlation functions of shortest scalar operators in bi-scalar planar four-dimensional "fishnet" CFT. We apply the OPE to extract from these functions the exact expressions for the scaling dimensions and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Nikolay Gromov , Vladimir Kazakov , Gregory Korchemsky

Near lightcone correlators are dominated by operators with the lowest twist. We consider the contributions of such leading lowest twist multi-stress tensor operators to a heavy-heavy-light-light correlator in a CFT of any even…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Robin Karlsson , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev , Petar Tadić

We consider the semiclassical limit of the vacuum Virasoro block describing the diagonal 4-point correlation functions on the sphere. At large central charge c, after exponentiation, it depends on two fixed ratios h_H/c and h_L/c, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Matteo Beccaria , Alberto Fachechi , Guido Macorini