Exact Bulk-Boundary Pairs in AdS/CFT
Abstract
We show that for a CFT on a flat open solid torus, the two point function in the Weyl frame is exactly paired with a finite geodesic lying entirely in the AdS bulk interior. This relation is exact and requires neither large , strong coupling, nor heavy operators. The exactness is that of conformal kinematics; no semiclassical bulk dynamics is assumed. The standard boundary-anchored relation is a singular limit of the exact pair. For the free scalar, a mode expansion along generates an infinite tower of effective masses on , whose intricate propagators resum exactly to the same simple higher-dimensional geodesic expression. Together with another exact pair between disjoint entanglement entropy and entanglement wedge cross-section found on the same open solid torus, this result points toward a broader exact-pair program in AdS/CFT.
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@article{arxiv.2605.15776,
title = {Exact Bulk-Boundary Pairs in AdS/CFT},
author = {Xin Jiang and Peng Wang and Haitang Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.15776},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
V2: Added a paragraphy to clarify Kinematic nature of the exactness. Made corrections on the diagrams. Typo corrected. 5 pages, 4 figures