Particle Theory Seminar: Pedro Liendo, DESY, “Bootstrapping holographic defect correlators”

We apply analytic bootstrap techniques to study correlators of local operators in the presence of an extended object or “defect”. After reviewing the general setup, we focus on N=4 SYM at strong coupling.
We bypass explicit holographic calculations in favor of an inversion formula that reconstructs defect correlators starting from a certain discontinuity. Using this method we obtain elegant closed-form expressions for an infinite family of defect correlators with their full cross-ratio dependence. The result is mostly fixed by symmetry with minimal external input, and satisfies several consistency checks.
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