Spectral flow and the conformal block expansion for strings in AdS$_3$
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| author | Iguri, Sergio Kovensky, Nicolas Toro, Julian H. |
| author_facet | Iguri, Sergio Kovensky, Nicolas Toro, Julian H. |
| contents | We present a detailed study of spectrally flowed four-point functions in the SL(2,$\mathbb{R}$) WZW model, focusing on their conformal block decomposition. Dei and Eberhardt conjectured a general formula relating these observables to their unflowed counterparts. Although the latter are not known in closed form, their conformal block expansion has been formally established. By combining this information with the integral transform that encodes the effect of spectral flow, we show how to describe a considerable number of $s$-channel exchanges, including cases with both flowed and unflowed intermediate states. For all such processes, we compute the normalization of the corresponding conformal blocks in terms of products of the recently derived flowed three-point functions with arbitrary spectral flow charges. Our results constitute a highly non-trivial consistency check, thus strongly supporting the aforementioned conjecture, and establishing its computational power. |
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| spellingShingle | Spectral flow and the conformal block expansion for strings in AdS$_3$ Iguri, Sergio Kovensky, Nicolas Toro, Julian H. High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics We present a detailed study of spectrally flowed four-point functions in the SL(2,$\mathbb{R}$) WZW model, focusing on their conformal block decomposition. Dei and Eberhardt conjectured a general formula relating these observables to their unflowed counterparts. Although the latter are not known in closed form, their conformal block expansion has been formally established. By combining this information with the integral transform that encodes the effect of spectral flow, we show how to describe a considerable number of $s$-channel exchanges, including cases with both flowed and unflowed intermediate states. For all such processes, we compute the normalization of the corresponding conformal blocks in terms of products of the recently derived flowed three-point functions with arbitrary spectral flow charges. Our results constitute a highly non-trivial consistency check, thus strongly supporting the aforementioned conjecture, and establishing its computational power. |
| title | Spectral flow and the conformal block expansion for strings in AdS$_3$ |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04247 |