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We study a set of CFT operators suitable for reconstructing a charged bulk scalar field ϕ in AdS3 (dual to an operator \( \mathcal{O} \) of dimension ∆ in the CFT) in the presence of a conserved spin-n current in the CFT. One has to sum a tower of smeared non-primary scalars \( {\partial}_{+}^m{J}^{(m)} \), where J(m) are primaries with twist ∆ and spin m built from \( \mathcal{O} \) and the current. The coefficients of these operators can be fixed by demanding that bulk correlators are well-defined: with a simple ansatz this requirement allows us to calculate bulk correlators directly from the CFT. They are built from specific polynomials of the kinematic invariants up to a freedom to make field redefinitions. To order 1/N this procedure captures the dressing of the bulk scalar field by a radial generalized Wilson line.
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Kabat, D., Lifschytz, G. Dressing bulk fields in AdS3. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 189 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2020)189
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