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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

A recent proposal relates two dimensional holographic conformal field theories deformed by the integrable $T\bar{T}$ flow to AdS$_3$ with a finite radial cutoff. We investigate this proposal by studying perturbative correlation functions on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-06 Per Kraus , Junyu Liu , Donald Marolf

We compute correlation functions, specifically 1-point and 2-point functions, in holographic boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) using geodesic approximation. The holographic model consists of a massive scalar field coupled to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Jani Kastikainen , Sanjit Shashi

We compute exact three and four point functions in the W_N minimal models that were recently conjectured to be dual to a higher spin theory in AdS_3. The boundary theory has a large number of light operators that are not only invisible in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-13 Kyriakos Papadodimas , Suvrat Raju

In strongly coupled conformal field theories with a large central charge important light degrees of freedom are the stress tensor and its composites, multi-stress tensors. We consider the OPE expansion of two-point functions of the stress…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-31 Robin Karlsson , Andrei Parnachev , Valentina Prilepina , Samuel Valach

Holographic thermal two-point functions can be analyzed using the operator product expansion which contains contributions from both multi-stress-tensor and double-trace operators. The former can be computed by analyzing the bulk equation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-23 Ilija Burić , Ivan Gusev , Andrei Parnachev

Thermal correlators in holographic conformal field theories are known to exhibit singularities in complex time, sometimes referred to as ``bouncing singularities", which are believed to be related to bulk geodesics probing the black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Simone Giombi , Yue-Zhou Li , Jieru Shan

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

In the AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$ framework, the Euclidean BTZ black hole corresponds to the dominant high-temperature phase of its dual field theory. We initially employ perturbative methods to solve the Einstein equations as boundary value problems,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-26 Song He , Yi Li , Yun-Ze Li , Yunda Zhang

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 large-$c$ $n$-point Virasoro blocks with $n-k$ background heavy operators and $k$ perturbative heavy operators. Conformal dimensions of heavy operators scale linearly with large $c$, while splitting into background/perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 K. B. Alkalaev , Mikhail Pavlov

We study three-point correlation functions of scalar operators in conformal field theories with boundaries and interfaces. We focus on two cases where there are one bulk and two boundary operators (B$\partial\partial$), or two bulk and one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-27 Junding Chen , Xinan Zhou

We study a family of higher-derivative conformal operators $P_{2k}^{(2)}$ acting on transverse-traceless symmetric 2-tensors on generic Einstein spaces. They are a natural generalization of the well-known construction for scalars. We first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Rodrigo Aros , Fabrizzio Bugini , Danilo E. Diaz

Bilocal holography is a constructive approach to the higher spin theory holographically dual to $O(N)$ vector models. In contrast to other approaches to bulk reconstruction, bilocal holography does not take input from the dual gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-08 Robert de Mello Koch , Eunice Gandote , Nirina Hasina Tahiridimbisoa , Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

In the context of $\rm AdS_3/CFT_2$, we investigate holographic correlators of the stress tensor of a conformal field theory (CFT) on a torus in this work. To calculate the correlators of the stress tensor, we employ the Einstein-Hilbert…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-05 Song He , Yi Li , Yun-Ze Li , Yunda Zhang

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to explicitly calculate some of the three-point functions in the planar limit of the 4d $\mathcal{N}=1$ Leigh-Strassler SCFT. This strongly interacting CFT can be obtained as a mass deformation of the 4d…

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

We study certain higher point thermal correlators of heavy and light scalar primaries in a holographic CFT. Assuming simple self-interactions and couplings of the scalars in the bulk theory, we show that the thermal correlators contain a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-16 Kaustubh Singhi

We present an exact formula for the thermal scalar two-point function in four-dimensional holographic conformal field theories. The problem of finding it reduces to the analysis of the wave equation on the AdS-Schwarzschild background. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Matthew Dodelson , Alba Grassi , Cristoforo Iossa , Daniel Panea Lichtig , Alexander Zhiboedov

We provide a concrete link between celestial amplitudes and cosmological correlators. We first construct a map from quantum field theories (QFTs) in $(D+2)$-dimensional Euclidean space to theories on the $(D+1)$-dimensional sphere, through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-10 Hideo Furugori , Naoki Ogawa , Sotaro Sugishita , Takahiro Waki

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