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Within a holographic model, we calculate the time evolution of 2-point and 1-point correlation functions (of selected operators) within a charged strongly coupled system of many particles. That system is thermalizing from an anisotropic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Casey Cartwright , Matthias Kaminski

We compute fully retarded scalar three-point functions of holographic CFTs at finite temperature using real-time holography. They describe the nonlinear response of a holographic medium under scalar forcing, and display single and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Christiana Pantelidou , Benjamin Withers

Two-dimensional conformal field theories at large central charge and with a sufficiently sparse spectrum of light states have been shown to exhibit universal thermodynamics. This thermodynamics matches that of AdS$_3$ gravity, with a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-13 Per Kraus , Allic Sivaramakrishnan , River Snively

We present a new formalism to solve the kinematical constraints due to Weyl invariance for CFTs in curved backgrounds and/or non-trivial states, and we apply it to thermal CFTs and to CFTs on squashed spheres. The ambient space formalism is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-28 Enrico Parisini , Kostas Skenderis , Benjamin Withers

We discuss generalized partition function of 2d CFTs decorated by higher qKdV charges on thermal cylinder. We propose that in the large central charge limit qKdV charges factorize such that generalized partition function can be rewritten in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-13 Anatoly Dymarsky , Kirill Pavlenko

We initiate an approach to constraining conformal field theory (CFT) data at finite temperature using methods inspired by the conformal bootstrap for vacuum correlation functions. We focus on thermal one- and two-point functions of local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Luca Iliesiu , Murat Koloğlu , Raghu Mahajan , Eric Perlmutter , David Simmons-Duffin

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

We investigate how the gravitational effects of a black hole manifest themselves as thermal behavior in the dual finite-temperature conformal field theory (CFT). In the holographic framework of AdS/CFT, we analyze a wave packet propagating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-23 Norihiro Tanahashi , Seiji Terashima , Shiki Yoshikawa

We use holography to study correlation functions of local operators in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories arising on the world-volume of D$p$-branes in the large-$N$ and strong-coupling limit. The relevant supergravity backgrounds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Nikolay Bobev , Guillermo Mera Álvarez , Hynek Paul

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

This note is aimed at presenting a new algebraic approach to momentum-space correlators in conformal field theory. As an illustration we present a new Lie-algebraic method to compute frequency-space two-point functions for charged scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-13 Satoshi Ohya

We investigate the analytic structure of thermal spectral function of holographic CFTs, synthesizing recent developments into a set of observations about its asymptotics. Specifically, for a class of scalar primaries with integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-26 Hewei Frederic Jia , Mukund Rangamani

We study the form factors of local operators of integrable QFT's between states with finite energy density. These states arise, for example, at finite temperature, or from a generalized Gibbs ensemble. We generalize Smirnov's form factor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Axel Cortés Cubero , Miłosz Panfil

We discuss a correlation function factorization, which relates a three-point function to the square root of three two-point functions. This factorization is known to hold for certain scaling operators at the two-dimensional percolation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jacob J. H. Simmons , Peter Kleban

This thesis explores thermal correlation functions in conformal field theories (CFTs) and their connection to black hole geometry within the AdS/CFT correspondence, using a near-boundary expansion as the main tool. Two themes are examined.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Samuel Valach

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

Thermal spectra of correlation functions in holographic 3d large-N conformal field theories (CFTs) correspond to quasinormal modes of classical gravity and other fields in asymptotically anti-de Sitter black hole spacetimes. Using general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-09 Sašo Grozdanov , Mile Vrbica

We developed the functional form of the two-point correlation function under the approximation of fixed particle number density n(bar). We solved the quasi-linear partial differential equation (PDE) through the method of characteristics to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-01 Durakhshan Ashraf Qadri , Abdul W. Khanday , Prince A. Ganai

The universal nature of black hole collapse in asymptotically $AdS_3$ gravitational theories suggests that its holographic dual process, thermalization, should similarly be fixed by the universal features of 2d CFT with large central charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Gideon Vos

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence we model the behaviour of the two point correlator of an operator with arbitrary scale dimension $\Delta$ in arbitrary spacetime dimension $d$ for small but non-zero temperature. The obtained propagator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-31 Borut Bajc , Adrian R. Lugo