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Exact Bulk-Boundary Pairs in AdS/CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-21 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We show that for a CFTD_D 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 AdSD+1_{D+1} bulk interior. This relation is exact and requires neither large NN, 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 S1S^1 generates an infinite tower of effective masses on HD1H_{D-1}, 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

R2 v1 2026-07-22T07:14:03.891Z