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We present an analytic study of conformal field theories on the real projective space $\mathbb{RP}^d$, focusing on the two-point functions of scalar operators. Due to the partially broken conformal symmetry, these are non-trivial functions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-11 Simone Giombi , Himanshu Khanchandani , Xinan Zhou

We generalize a recent ``AdS S-matrix" formulation for interacting massive scalars on AdS spacetimes to the case of massive vector fields. This method relies on taking the infinite radius limit for scattering processes perturbatively, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 Nabamita Banerjee , Amogh Neelkanth Desai , Karan Fernandes , Arpita Mitra , Tabasum Rahnuma

We give a holographic description of global conformal blocks in two dimensional conformal field theory on the sphere and on the torus. We show that the conformal blocks for one-point functions on the torus can be written as Witten diagrams…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Per Kraus , Alexander Maloney , Henry Maxfield , Gim Seng Ng , Jie-qiang Wu

We study local operator insertions on 1/2-BPS line defects in ABJM theory. Specifically, we consider a class of four-point correlators in the CFT$_1$ with SU$(1, 1|3)$ superconformal symmetry defined on the 1/2-BPS Wilson line. The relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-09 Lorenzo Bianchi , Gabriel Bliard , Valentina Forini , Luca Griguolo , Domenico Seminara

Computing correlation functions in curved spacetime is central to both theoretical and experimental efforts, from precision cosmology to quantum simulations of strongly coupled systems. In anti-de Sitter (AdS) and de Sitter (dS) space, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-22 Aidan Herderschee

We develop a new embedding-space formalism for AdS$_4$ and CFT$_3$ that is useful for evaluating Witten diagrams for operators with spin. The basic variables are Killing spinors for the bulk AdS$_4$ and conformal Killing spinors for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Damon J. Binder , Daniel Z. Freedman , Silviu S. Pufu

In this follow up paper, we calculate higher point tree level graviton Witten diagrams in AdS$_4$ via bulk perturbation theory. We show that by rearranging the bulk to bulk graviton propagators, the calculations effectively reduce to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-24 Soner Albayrak , Savan Kharel

Quantum field theories in AdS generate conformal correlation functions on the boundary, and in the limit where AdS is nearly flat one should be able to extract an S-matrix from such correlators. We discuss a particularly simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-03 Shota Komatsu , Miguel F. Paulos , Balt C. van Rees , Xiang Zhao

There is a renewed interest in conformal field theories (CFT) on ultrametric spaces (p-adic field and its algebraic extensions) in view of their natural adaptability in the holographic setting. We compute the contributions from the exchange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Parikshit Dutta , Debashis Ghoshal , Arindam Lala

In this paper we discuss geodesic Witten diagrams in generic holographic conformal field theories with boundary or defect. Boundary CFTs allow two different decompositions of two-point functions into conformal blocks: boundary channel and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Andreas Karch , Yoshiki Sato

We describe a systematic approach for the evaluation of Witten diagrams for multi-loop scattering amplitudes of a conformally coupled scalar $\phi^4$-theory in Euclidean AdS$_4$, by recasting the Witten diagrams as flat space Feynman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-24 Till Heckelbacher , Ivo Sachs , Evgeny Skvortsov , Pierre Vanhove

The differential representation of AdS correlators offers a framework to express exchange Witten diagrams as functions of non-local differential operators applied to contact Witten diagrams. In this paper, we develop the differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-18 Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Subramanya Hegde , Arpit Maurya

In this thesis, we consider two approaches to the study of correlation functions in one-dimensional defect Conformal Field Theories (dCFT$_1$), in particular those defined by 1/2-BPS Wilson line defects in the three- and four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-30 Gabriel J. S. Bliard

Conformal blocks are the fundamental, theory-independent building blocks in any CFT, so it is important to understand their holographic representation in the context of AdS/CFT. We describe how to systematically extract the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-21 Christian Baadsgaard Jepsen , Sarthak Parikh

We develop a systematic approach to evaluating AdS loop amplitudes based on the spectral (or "split") representation of bulk-to-bulk propagators, which re-expresses loop diagrams in terms of spectral integrals and higher-point tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-03 Simone Giombi , Charlotte Sleight , Massimo Taronna

We present a comprehensive discussion of tree-level holographic $4$-point functions of scalar operators in momentum space. We show that each individual Witten diagram satisfies the conformal Ward identities on its own and is thus a valid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-15 Adam Bzowski , Paul McFadden , Kostas Skenderis

We consider correlation functions in 6d $(2,0)$ theories of two $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS operators inserted away from a $\frac{1}{2}$-BPS surface defect. In the large central charge limit the leading connected contribution corresponds to sums of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-31 Junding Chen , Aleix Gimenez-Grau , Xinan Zhou

Carrollian Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) have been proposed as co-dimension one holographic duals to asymptotically flat spacetimes as opposed to Celestial CFTs which are co-dimension two. In this paper, drawing inspiration from Celestial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Arjun Bagchi , Prateksh Dhivakar , Sudipta Dutta

In this paper, we create a Mellin space method for boundary correlation functions in de Sitter (dS) and anti-de Sitter (AdS) spaces. We demonstrate that the analytic continuation between AdS${}_{d+1}$ and dS${}_{d+1}$ is encoded in a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-11 Sayantan Choudhury

Extremal cubic couplings in AdS relate bulk fields such that $\Delta_i+\Delta_j=\Delta_k$. Such couplings lead to divergent 3-point Witten diagrams, and do not occur in theories with maximal supersymmetry. We consider the simplest theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-02 Shai M. Chester , Rishi Mouland , Jesse van Muiden