Lemos, Madalena and Liendo, Pedro and Meineri, Marco and Sarkar, Sourav (2018) 'Universality at large transverse spin in defect CFT.', Journal of high energy physics., 2018 (9). 091.
Abstract
We study the spectrum of local operators living on a defect in a generic conformal field theory, and their coupling to the local bulk operators. We establish the existence of universal accumulation points in the spectrum at large s, s being the charge of the operators under rotations in the space transverse to the defect. Our tools include a formula that inverts the bulk to defect OPE, analogous to the Caron-Huot formula for the four-point function [1]. Analyticity of the formula in s implies that the scaling dimensions of the defect operators are aligned in Regge trajectories Δˆ(s). These results require the correlator of two local operators and the defect to be bounded in a certain region, a condition that we do not prove in general. We check our conclusions against examples in perturbation theory and holography, and we make specific predictions concerning the spectrum of defect operators on Wilson lines. We also give an interpretation of the large s spectrum in the spirit of the work of Alday and Maldacena [2].
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution. Download PDF (950Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2018)091 |
Publisher statement: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
Date accepted: | 05 September 2018 |
Date deposited: | 09 June 2020 |
Date of first online publication: | 17 September 2018 |
Date first made open access: | 09 June 2020 |
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