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Extremal Three-point Correlators in Kerr/CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-02-09 v2

Abstract

We compute three-point correlation functions in the near-extremal, near-horizon region of a Kerr black hole, and compare to the corresponding finite-temperature conformal field theory correlators. For simplicity, we focus on scalar fields dual to operators Oh{\cal O}_h whose conformal dimensions obey h3=h1+h2h_3=h_1+h_2, which we name \emph{extremal} in analogy with the classic AdS5×S5AdS_5 \times S^5 three-point function in the literature. For such extremal correlators we find perfect agreement with the conformal field theory side, provided that the coupling of the cubic interaction contains a vanishing prefactor h3h1h2\propto h_3-h_1-h_2. In fact, the bulk three-point function integral for such extremal correlators diverges as 1/(h3h1h2)1/(h_3-h_1-h_2). This behavior is analogous to what was found in the context of extremal AdS/CFT three-point correlators. As in AdS/CFT our correlation function can nevertheless be computed via analytic continuation from the non-extremal case.

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@article{arxiv.1004.1174,
  title  = {Extremal Three-point Correlators in Kerr/CFT},
  author = {Melanie Becker and Sera Cremonini and Waldemar Schulgin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.1174},
  year   = {2011}
}

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22 pages; v2: references added, typos corrected

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