Thermal stress tensor correlators near lightcone and holography

Journal article

Quantum field theories with identical local dynamics can admit different choices of global structure, leading to different partition functions and spectra of extended operators. Such choices can be reformulated in terms of a topological field theory in one dimension higher, the symmetry TFT. In this paper we show that this TFT can be reconstructed from a careful analysis of the infrared Coulomb-like phases. In particular, the TFT matches between the UV and the IR. This provides a purely field theoretical counterpart of several recent results obtained via geometric engineering in various string/M/F theory setups for theories in four and five dimensions that we confirm and extend

Authors: Esper, C; Huang, K-W; Karlsson, R; Parnachev, A; Valach, S

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Volume: 2023
• Issue: 11
• Article number: 107
• Publication date: 2023-11-17
• DOI: 10.1007/jhep11(2023)107
• EISSN: 1029-8479
• ISSN: 1126-6708
• Language: English
• Keywords: Gravitation; Mathematical physics; Cauchy stress tensor; Physics; Exact solutions in general relativity; Quantum mechanics; Geometry; Operator (biology); Theoretical physics; Tensor (intrinsic definition); Twist; Classical mechanics; Operator product expansion; Stress–energy tensor