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View article: Witten diagrams revisited: the AdS geometry of conformal blocks
Witten diagrams revisited: the AdS geometry of conformal blocks Open
Here, we develop a new method for decomposing blocks. The steps involved are elementary, requiring no explicit integration, and operate directly in position space. Central to this construction is an appealingly simple answer to the questio…
View article: The Holographic Geometry of Conformal Blocks
The Holographic Geometry of Conformal Blocks Open
Conformal blocks are the building blocks of correlation functions in conformal field theory. They figure prominently in the study of quantum gravity in light of the AdS/CFT correspondence which identifies conformal field theory as a hologr…
View article: Black holes from CFT: universality of correlators at large c
Black holes from CFT: universality of correlators at large c Open
Two-dimensional conformal field theories at large central charge and with a sufficiently sparse spectrum of light states have been shown to exhibit universal thermodynamics. This thermodynamics matches that of AdS$_3$ gravity, with a Hawki…
View article: Worldline approach to semi-classical conformal blocks
Worldline approach to semi-classical conformal blocks Open
We extend recent results on semi-classical conformal blocks in 2d CFT and their relation to 3D gravity via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider four-point functions with two heavy and two light external operators, along with the exchang…
View article: Worldline approach to semi-classical conformal blocks
Worldline approach to semi-classical conformal blocks Open
We extend recent results on semi-classical conformal blocks in 2d CFT and their relation to 3D gravity via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider four-point functions with two heavy and two light external operators, along with the exchang…