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Carrollian holography is a framework for flat space holography, suggesting that gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime in $D$ dimensions is dual to a conformal Carrollian field theory in $D - 1$ dimensions living at null infinity. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Harshal Kulkarni , Romain Ruzziconi , Akshay Yelleshpur Srikant

In the semi-classical ($c \rightarrow \infty$) limit, 4-point HLLH correlators in 2D CFTs exhibit periodic Euclidean singularities. Periodic singularities in Euclidean time are a general feature of thermal correlators, even at weak…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-15 Aaditya Datar , Chethan Krishnan

The behavior of holographic CFTs is constrained by the existence of a bulk dual geometry. For example, in (2+1)-dimensional holographic CFTs living on a static spacetime with compact spatial slices, the vacuum energy must be nonpositive,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-01 Sebastian Fischetti , Toby Wiseman

We consider Virasoro conformal blocks in the large central charge limit. There are different regimes depending on the behavior of the conformal dimensions. The most simple regime is reduced to the global sl(2, C) conformal blocks while the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 K. B. Alkalaev , V. A. Belavin

We study four types of one-point torus blocks arising in the large central charge regime. According to different limits of conformal dimensions we distinguish between the global block, the light block, the heavy-light block, and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 K. B. Alkalaev , R. V. Geiko , V. A. Rappoport

It will be shown analytically that the light sector of the identity block of a mixed heavy-light correlator in the large central charge limit is given by a correlation function of light operators on an effective background geometry. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Gideon Vos

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

We chart the breakdown of semiclassical gravity by analyzing the Virasoro conformal blocks to high numerical precision, focusing on the heavy-light limit corresponding to a light probe propagating in a BTZ black hole background. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Hongbin Chen , Charles Hussong , Jared Kaplan , Daliang Li

Recently established rationality of correlation functions in a globally conformal invariant quantum field theory satisfying Wightman axioms is used to construct a family of soluble models in 4-dimensional Minkowski space-time. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nikolay M. Nikolov , Yassen S. Stanev , Ivan T. Todorov

The Galilean Conformal Algebra (GCA) arises from the relativistic conformal algebra in the non-relativistic limit. In two dimensions, one can view it as a limit of linear combinations of the two copies Virasoro algebra. Recently, it has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-18 Arjun Bagchi

The holographic entanglement entropy functional for higher-curvature gravities involves a weighted sum whose evaluation, beyond quadratic order, requires a complicated theory-dependent splitting of the Riemann tensor components. Using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Pablo Bueno , Joan Camps , Alejandro Vilar López

The linearisation of a second-order formulation of the conformal Einstein field equations (CEFEs) in Generalised Harmonic Gauge (GHG), with trace-free matter is derived. The linearised equations are obtained for a general background and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Justin Feng , Edgar Gasperin

In two dimensional conformal field theories the limit of large central charge plays the role of a semi-classical limit. Certain universal observables, such as conformal blocks involving the exchange of the identity operator, can be expanded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Nathan Benjamin , Scott Collier , Alexander Maloney , Viraj Meruliya

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 examine two-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) at central charge c=0. These arise typically in the description of critical systems with quenched disorder, but also in other contexts including dilute self-avoiding polymers and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 V. Gurarie , A. W. W. Ludwig

We present some accurate and efficient computations of large scale structure observables, obtained with a modified version of the CLASS code which is made publicly available. This code includes all relativistic corrections and computes both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-04 Enea Di Dio , Francesco Montanari , Julien Lesgourgues , Ruth Durrer

We consider entanglement negativity for two disjoint intervals in 1+1 dimensional CFT in the limit of large central charge. As the two intervals get close, the leading behavior of negativity is given by the logarithm of the conformal block…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev , Giuseppe Policastro

A set of linear differential equations was recently put forward as higher-dimensional generalizations of the BPZ null-state equations in two-dimensional CFTs at large central charge. In this work, we derive these higher-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-06 Kuo-Wei Huang

The non-diagonal correlators of vector and scalar currents are considered at three-loop order in QCD. The full mass dependence is computed in the case where one of the quarks is massless and the other one carries mass $M$. We exploit the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 K. G. Chetyrkin , M. Steinhauser

A new numerical scheme to solve the Einstein field equations based upon the generalized harmonic decomposition of the Ricci tensor is introduced. The source functions driving the wave equations that define generalized harmonic coordinates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Frans Pretorius