Holographic description for correlation functions

Abstract

We study general correlation functions of various quantum field theories in the holographic setup. Following the holographic proposal, we investigate correlation functions via a geodesic length connecting boundary operators. We show that this holographic description can reproduce the known two- and three-point functions of conformal field theory. Using this holographic method, we further study general two-point functions of a two-dimensional thermal CFT and of a scalar field theory living in a dS or AdS space. Due to the nontrivial thermal or curvature effect, the two-point functions in an IR limit show different scaling behaviors from those of the UV CFT. We study such nontrivial IR scaling behaviors by applying the holographic method.

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