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We develop an efficient method for computing thermal partition functions of weakly coupled scalar fields in AdS. We consider quartic contact interactions and show how to evaluate the relevant two-loop vacuum diagrams without performing any explicit AdS integration, the key step being the use of Källén-Lehmann type identities. This leads to a simple method for extracting double-trace anomalous dimensions in any spacetime dimension, recovering known first-order results in a streamlined fashion.
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Kraus, P., Megas, S. & Sivaramakrishnan, A. Anomalous dimensions from thermal AdS partition functions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 149 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2020)149
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