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Title: Spinning geodesic Witten diagrams

Abstract

We present an expression for the four-point conformal blocks of symmetric traceless operators of arbitrary spin as an integral over a pair of geodesics in Anti-de Sitter space, generalizing the geodesic Witten diagram formalism of Hijano et al [arXiv:1508.00501] to arbitrary spin. As an intermediate step in the derivation, we identify a convenient basis of bulk three-point interaction vertices which give rise to all possible boundary three point structures. We highlight a direct connection between the representation of the conformal block as a geodesic Witten diagram and the shadow operator formalism.

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  1. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Inst. for Theoretical Physics
  2. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Stanford Inst. for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Center for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Mathematics
  3. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Theory Group; McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada). Dept of Physics
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Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1410512
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1418210
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515; PHY-1316699; PHY-1620045
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: 2017; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; AdS-CFT Correspondence; Conformal Field Theory

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Dyer, Ethan, Freedman, Daniel Z., and Sully, James. Spinning geodesic Witten diagrams. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1007/JHEP11(2017)060.
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@article{osti_1410512,
title = {Spinning geodesic Witten diagrams},
author = {Dyer, Ethan and Freedman, Daniel Z. and Sully, James},
abstractNote = {We present an expression for the four-point conformal blocks of symmetric traceless operators of arbitrary spin as an integral over a pair of geodesics in Anti-de Sitter space, generalizing the geodesic Witten diagram formalism of Hijano et al [arXiv:1508.00501] to arbitrary spin. As an intermediate step in the derivation, we identify a convenient basis of bulk three-point interaction vertices which give rise to all possible boundary three point structures. We highlight a direct connection between the representation of the conformal block as a geodesic Witten diagram and the shadow operator formalism.},
doi = {10.1007/JHEP11(2017)060},
journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)},
number = 11,
volume = 2017,
place = {United States},
year = {2017},
month = {11}
}
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