Eikonalization of conformal blocks
Abstract
Classical field configurations such as the Coulomb potential and Schwarzschild solution are built from the t-channel exchange of many light degrees of freedom. We study the CFT analog of this phenomenon, which we term the 'eikonalization' of conformal blocks. We show that when an operator T appears in the OPE Ο(x)Ο(0), then the large spin Fock space states [TT···T]ℓ also appear in this OPE with a computable coefficient. The sum over the exchange of these Fock space states in an correlator build the classical 'T field' in the dual AdS description. In some limits the sum of all Fock space exchanges can be represented as the exponential of a single T exchange in the 4-pt correlator of O. Our results should be useful for systematizing 1/ℓ perturbation theory in general CFTs and simplifying the computation of large spin OPE coefficients. As examples we obtain the leading log ℓ dependence of Fock space conformal block coefficients, and we directly compute the OPE coefficients of the simplest ‘triple-trace’ operators.
- Authors:
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- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
- Boston Univ., Boston, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1225807
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-16685
Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479; PII: 2021; TRN: US1500807
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00515
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2015; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; AdS-CFT correspondence; conformal and W symmetry
Citation Formats
Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, Walters, Matthew T., and Wang, Junpu. Eikonalization of conformal blocks. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2015)019.
Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, Walters, Matthew T., & Wang, Junpu. Eikonalization of conformal blocks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)019
Fitzpatrick, A. Liam, Kaplan, Jared, Walters, Matthew T., and Wang, Junpu. Thu .
"Eikonalization of conformal blocks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1225807.
@article{osti_1225807,
title = {Eikonalization of conformal blocks},
author = {Fitzpatrick, A. Liam and Kaplan, Jared and Walters, Matthew T. and Wang, Junpu},
abstractNote = {Classical field configurations such as the Coulomb potential and Schwarzschild solution are built from the t-channel exchange of many light degrees of freedom. We study the CFT analog of this phenomenon, which we term the 'eikonalization' of conformal blocks. We show that when an operator T appears in the OPE Ο(x)Ο(0), then the large spin Fock space states [TT···T]ℓ also appear in this OPE with a computable coefficient. The sum over the exchange of these Fock space states in an correlator build the classical 'T field' in the dual AdS description. In some limits the sum of all Fock space exchanges can be represented as the exponential of a single T exchange in the 4-pt correlator of O. Our results should be useful for systematizing 1/ℓ perturbation theory in general CFTs and simplifying the computation of large spin OPE coefficients. As examples we obtain the leading log ℓ dependence of Fock space conformal block coefficients, and we directly compute the OPE coefficients of the simplest ‘triple-trace’ operators.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP09(2015)019},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 9,
volume = 2015,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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