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SCIPOST PHYSICS
Volume 14, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
SCIPOST FOUNDATION
DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.14.5.116
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We present an exact formula for the thermal scalar two-point function in fourdimensional holographic conformal field theories. The result is obtained by analyzing the wave equation on the AdS-Schwarzschild background and computing the connection coefficients of the Heun equation. The formula can be expressed in terms of the Nekrasov-Shatashvili partition function of an SU(2) supersymmetric gauge theory and can be evaluated numerically by truncating the number of instantons in the partition function.
We present an exact formula for the thermal scalar two-point function in fourdimensional holographic conformal field theories. The problem of finding it reduces to the analysis of the wave equation on the AdS-Schwarzschild background. The two-point function is computed from the connection coefficients of the Heun equation, which can be expressed in terms of the Nekrasov-Shatashvili partition function of an SU(2) supersymmetric gauge theory with four fundamental hypermultiplets. The result is amenable to numerical evaluation upon truncating the number of instantons in the convergent expansion of the partition function. We also examine it analytically in various limits. At large spin the instanton expansion of the thermal two-point function directly maps to the light-cone bootstrap analysis of the heavy-light four-point function. Using this connection, we compute the OPE data of heavy-light double-twist operators. We compare our prediction to the perturbative results available in the literature and find perfect agreement.
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