Constructing CFTs from AdS flows

Abstract

We study the renormalization group flow equations for correlation functions of weakly coupled quantum field theories in AdS. Taking the limit where the external points approach the conformal boundary, we obtain a flow of conformally invariant correlation functions. We solve the flow for one- and two-point functions and show that the corrections to the conformal dimensions can be obtained as an integral over the Mellin amplitude of the four-point function. We also derive the flow of the Mellin amplitude for higher $n$-point functions. We then consider the flows at tree level and one loop (in AdS), and show that one obtains exactly the recursion relations for the corresponding Mellin amplitudes derived earlier by Fitzpatrick et al. [arXiv:1107.1499] at tree level and Yuan [arXiv:1710.01361,arXiv:1801.07283] at one loop. As an application, we furthermore compute one-loop corrections to the conformal dimensions for some operators in the CFT dual to an $\mathrm{O}(N)$ scalar model in AdS.

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