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Unravelling AdS3/CFT2 near the boundary

Bob Knighton, Vit Sriprachyakul

2025Journal of High Energy Physics13 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

A bstract We study correlation functions of spectrally-flowed vertex operators in bosonic string theory on AdS 3 Γ— 𝑋 in the path integral formalism. By restricting the path integral to only include worldsheets which live near the asymptotic boundary, we compute correlation functions of spectrally-flowed vertex operators and find a precise agreement with the perturbative correlators in the recently-proposed dual CFT at all orders in conformal perturbation theory. We thus provide highly nontrivial evidence for the bulk/boundary duality.

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PhysicsBoundary (topology)Theoretical physicsQuantum mechanicsMathematical analysisMathematicsBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsAlgebraic structures and combinatorial modelsAdvanced Operator Algebra Research