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A bispinor formalism for spinning Witten diagrams
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Binder, Damon J.
Freedman, Daniel Z.
Pufu, Silviu S.
Date Issued
February 7, 2022
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022 Feb 07;2022(2):40
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We develop a new embedding-space formalism for AdS4 and CFT3 that is useful for evaluating Witten diagrams for operators with spin. The basic variables are Killing spinors for the bulk AdS4 and conformal Killing spinors for the boundary CFT3. The more conventional embedding space coordinates XI for the bulk and P I for the boundary are bilinears in these new variables. We write a simple compact form for the general bulk-boundary propagator, and, for boundary operators of spin ℓ ≥ 1, we determine its conservation properties at the unitarity bound. In our CFT3 formalism, we identify an
so
$$ \mathfrak{so} $$
(5, 5) Lie algebra of differential operators that includes the basic weight-shifting operators. These operators, together with a set of differential operators in AdS4, can be used to relate Witten diagrams with spinning external legs to Witten diagrams with only scalar external legs. We provide several applications that include Compton scattering and the evaluation of an R4 contact interaction in AdS4. Finally, we derive bispinor formulas for the bulk-to-bulk propagators of massive spinor and vector gauge fields and evaluate a diagram with spinor exchange.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2022)040
