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We present full analytic results for the four-point one-loop amplitude of a conformally coupled scalar in four-dimensional Anti-de-Sitter space dual to a primary operator with scaling dimension 1. The computation is based on an intriguing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-20 Sven F. Stawinski

We compute the two- and four-point holographic correlation functions up to the second order in the coupling constant for a scalar $\phi^4$ theory in four-dimensional Euclidean anti-de Sitter space. Analytic expressions for the anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Igor Bertan , Ivo Sachs , Evgeny D. Skvortsov

The AdS/CFT correspondence identifies the coordinates of the conformal boundary of anti-de Sitter space with the coordinates of the conformal field theory. We generalize this identification to theories formulated in superspace. As an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Hirosi Ooguri , J. Rahmfeld , Harlan Robins , Jonathan Tannenhauser

We investigate loop corrections to the four-point function of identical scalar operators in a four-dimensional large $N$ conformal field theory, holographically dual to AdS with a quartic interaction. We focus on the universal part of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Agnese Bissi , Giulia Fardelli , Mohammad Reza Khansari

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

We derive an eikonal approximation to high energy interactions in Anti-de Sitter spacetime, by generalizing a position space derivation of the eikonal amplitude in flat space. We are able to resum, in terms of a generalized phase shift,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Lorenzo Cornalba , Miguel S. Costa , Joao Penedones

In this paper, we present a simple and iterative algorithm that computes Anti-de Sitter space scattering amplitudes. We focus on the vector correlators in AdS in four dimensions in momentum space. These new combinatorial relations will…

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

We demonstrate how three-point correlation functions of the free scalar U(N) model involving two scalar operators and one spin-$s$ conserved current organize themselves into corresponding AdS amplitudes involving two scalar and one spin-$s$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-23 Shailesh Lal

The differential representation is a novel formalism for studying boundary correlators in $(d+1)$-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. In this letter, we generalize the differential representation beyond tree level using the notion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-16 Aidan Herderschee

A physical and geometrical interpretation of previously introduced tensor operator algebras of U(2,2) in terms of algebras of higher-conformal-spin quantum fields on the anti-de Sitter space AdS_5 is provided. These are higher-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Calixto

We construct a new class of differential operators that naturally act on AdS harmonic functions. These are weight shifting operators that change the spin and dimension of AdS representations. Together with CFT weight shifting operators, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-13 Miguel S. Costa , Tobias Hansen

We propose studying a new representation of on-shell Anti de Sitter (AdS) amplitude in Mellin Momentum space, where it encodes all the dynamical information in Cosmological Correlators. At tree level, we demonstrate that this amplitude has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-16 Jiajie Mei

It was proposed by Maldacena that the large $N$ limit of certain conformal field theories can be described in terms of supergravity on anti-De Sitter spaces (AdS). Recently, Gubser, Klebanov and Polyakov and Witten have conjectured that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Ya. Aref'eva , I. V. Volovich

We initiate a systematic investigation of Mellin amplitudes of Witten diagrams to all loop levels, by introducing integral recursion relations among them. Focusing on the scalar effective theories in AdS with the simplest type of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-01 Ellis Ye Yuan

We introduce the framework of Quantum Field Theories in general backgrounds through the lens of the path integral, in the formulation known as the Functorial QFT. With the aim of studying properties of strongly coupled QFTs, we present key…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Jonáš Dujava

Study of correlation functions in AdS/CFT and in-in correlators in de Sitter space often requires the computation of Witten diagrams. Due to the complexity of evaluating radial integrals for these correlators, several indirect approaches…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-26 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Pratyusha Chowdhury , Radu N. Moga , Kajal Singh

We study the correlation functions of a conformally coupled $\phi^4$-interacting theory in AdS$_3$ and its dual CFT$_2$. The one-loop diagram is not expressible in terms of known transcendental functions, but is shown to be expressible as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Weichen Xiao , Ivo Sachs

The 1/2-BPS Wilson loop in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory is an important and well-studied example of conformal defect. In particular, much work has been done for the correlation functions of operator insertions on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Simone Giombi , Jiaqi Jiang , Shota Komatsu

We consider the question of loop corrections (i.e. 1/N) in the vector model/higher spin duality following the recent work of Giombi and Klebanov. The purpose of this paper is to gain further more precise comparison between the two sides of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Antal Jevicki , Kewang Jin , Junggi Yoon

We combine spectral- and split representations to factorize multi-loop momentum space diagrams, in the Schwinger-Keldysh formulation for cosmological correlators, with massive scalars in the loop. This allows us to extend the resummation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 Jonathan Gräfe , Ivo Sachs