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Towards the higher point holographic momentum space amplitudes

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In this paper, we calculate higher point tree level vector amplitudes propagating in AdS4, or equivalently the dual boundary current correlators. We use bulk perturbation theory to compute tree level Witten diagrams. We show that when these amplitudes are written in momentum space, they reduce to relatively simple expressions. We explicitly compute four and five point correlators and also sketch a general strategy to compute the full six-point correlators.

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  1. Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06511, U.S.A.

    Soner Albayrak & Savan Kharel

  2. Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, 91125, U.S.A.

    Soner Albayrak

  3. Department of Physics, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 01267, U.S.A.

    Savan Kharel

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Albayrak, S., Kharel, S. Towards the higher point holographic momentum space amplitudes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 40 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2019)040

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Keywords

  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • Conformal Field Theory
  • Scattering Amplitudes
  • Gauge-gravity correspondence