%0 Generic %1 Besken2016Holographic %A Besken, Mert %A Hegde, Ashwin %A Hijano, Eliot %A Kraus, Per %D 2016 %K ads3-cft2, conformal-block, higher-spin, wilson-loops %T Holographic conformal blocks from interacting Wilson lines %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07317 %X We present a simple prescription for computing conformal blocks and correlation functions holographically in AdS\$\_3\$ in terms of Wilson lines merging at a bulk vertex. This is shown to reproduce global conformal blocks and heavy-light Virasoro blocks. In the case of higher spin theories the space of vertices is in one-to-one correspondence with the space of \$W\_N\$ conformal blocks, and we show how the latter are obtained by explicit computations.

@misc{Besken2016Holographic, abstract = {We present a simple prescription for computing conformal blocks and correlation functions holographically in AdS\$\_3\$ in terms of Wilson lines merging at a bulk vertex. This is shown to reproduce global conformal blocks and heavy-light Virasoro blocks. In the case of higher spin theories the space of vertices is in one-to-one correspondence with the space of \${\cal W}\_N\$ conformal blocks, and we show how the latter are obtained by explicit computations.}, added-at = {2019-02-26T10:37:35.000+0100}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, author = {Besken, Mert and Hegde, Ashwin and Hijano, Eliot and Kraus, Per}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a307bc36cd8fbcafef367572e3a8e0f0/acastro}, citeulike-article-id = {13987018}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07317}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.07317}, day = 23, eprint = {1603.07317}, interhash = {3e854542a33e100af9ad196be0914c95}, intrahash = {a307bc36cd8fbcafef367572e3a8e0f0}, keywords = {ads3-cft2, conformal-block, higher-spin, wilson-loops}, month = mar, posted-at = {2016-03-24 08:05:21}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2019-02-26T10:37:35.000+0100}, title = {{Holographic conformal blocks from interacting Wilson lines}}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07317}, year = 2016 }