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Main Authors: Kundu, Suman, Minwalla, Shiraz, Navhal, Abhishek
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01507
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  • While correlators of a CFT are single valued in Euclidean Space, they are multi valued -- and have a complicated sheet structure -- in Lorentzian space. Correlators on $R^{1,1}$ are well known to access a finite number of these sheets. In this paper we demonstrate the spiral nature of lightcones on $S^1 \times $ time allows time ordered correlators of a $CFT_2$ on this spacetime -- the Lorentzian cylinder -- to access an infinite number of sheets of the correlator. We present a complete classification, both of the sheets accessed as well as of the various distinct causal configurations that lie on a particular sheet. Our construction provides a physical interpretation for an infinite number of sheets of the correlator, while, however, leaving a larger infinity of these sheets uninterpreted.