The Mellin Formalism for Boundary CFT${}_d$

Abstract

We extend the Mellin representation of conformal field theory (CFT) to allow for conformal boundaries and interfaces. We consider the simplest holographic setup dual to an interface CFT - a brane filling an $Ad{S}_d$ subspace of $Ad{S}_{d+1}$ - and perform a systematic study of Witten diagrams in this setup. As a byproduct of our analysis, we show that geodesic Witten diagrams in this geometry reproduce interface CFT${}_d$ conformal blocks, generalizing the analogous statement for CFTs with no defects.

38 pages, 7 figures; v2 references added, minor changes; v3 typos corrected, derivation in 4.3 now applies to the most general case. Published version

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