21–24 Sept 2010
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Extremal Three-point Correlators in Kerr/CFT

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1m
DESY Main Auditorium (DESY Hamburg)

DESY Main Auditorium

DESY Hamburg

Notkestrasse 85 22607 Hamburg

Speaker

Dr Waldemar Schulgin (Texas A&M University)

Description

We compute three-point correlation functions in the near-extremal, near-horizon region of a Kerr black hole, and compare to the corresponding finite-temperature conformal field theory correlators. For simplicity, we focus on scalar fields dual to operators ${\cal O}_h$ whose conformal dimensions obey $h_3=h_1+h_2$, which we name \emph{extremal} in analogy with the classic $AdS_5 \times S^5$ three-point function in the literature. For such extremal correlators we find perfect agreement with the conformal field theory side, provided that the coupling of the cubic interaction contains a vanishing prefactor $\propto h_3-h_1-h_2$. In fact, the bulk three-point function integral for such extremal correlators diverges as $1/(h_3-h_1-h_2)$. This behavior is analogous to what was found in the context of extremal AdS/CFT three-point correlators. As in AdS/CFT our correlation function can nevertheless be computed via analytic continuation from the non-extremal case.

Primary authors

Prof. Melanie Becker (Texas A&M University) Dr Sera Cremonini (Texas A&M University and DAMPT, University of Cambridge) Dr Waldemar Schulgin (Texas A&M University)

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