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most citedIrregular Liouville correlators and connection formulae for Heun functions

108 citations · 239 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

hep-th2026

Large Charge Jets in SYM Energy Correlators

Alba Grassi, Cristoforo Iossa, Luigi Tizzano +1

We compute the energy-energy correlator in a state created by a heavy canonical operator of scaling dimension in SYM, at fixed and arbitrary value…

hep-th2026

OPE = QNM

Paolo Arnaudo, Cristoforo Iossa, Robin Karlsson +1

At microscopic scales the linear response of thermal states of large- CFTs is governed by a thermal operator product expansion (OPE), while at large scales response is governed…

hep-th2025

Bouncing off a stringy singularity

Matthew Dodelson, Cristoforo Iossa, Robin Karlsson

A sharp signature of the black hole singularity in holography is a divergence in the boundary thermal two-point function at a specific point in the complex time plane. This diverge…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

5-Dimensional Gravitational Raman Scattering: Scalar Wave Perturbations in Schwarzschild-Tangherlini Spacetime

Samim Akhtar, Yilber Fabian Bautista, Cristoforo Iossa +1

In this Letter, we study scalar wave perturbations of arbitrary frequency to the 5D Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black hole (STBH) within general relativity. For the first time, we de…

hep-th2025

Large charge meets semiclassics in super Yang-Mills

Augustus Brown, Francesco Galvagno, Alba Grassi +2

We study the large-charge sector of super Yang-Mills theory (SYM) with gauge group by constructing a special class of half-BPS heavy operators, termed "cano…

hep-th2024

Matrix models for extremal and integrated correlators of higher rank

Alba Grassi, Cristoforo Iossa

We study extremal and integrated correlators of half-BPS operators in four-dimensional SQCD and SYM with gauge group. We focus on the large…

hep-th2023★ 3 cited

Black Hole Perturbation Theory Meets CFT: Kerr Compton Amplitudes from Nekrasov-Shatashvili Functions

Yilber Fabian Bautista, Giulio Bonelli, Cristoforo Iossa +2

We present a novel study of Kerr Compton amplitudes in a partial wave basis in terms of the Nekrasov-Shatashvili (NS) function of the confluent Heun equation (CHE). Remarkably, NS-…

hep-th2023★ 26 cited

Black hole bulk-cone singularities

Matthew Dodelson, Cristoforo Iossa, Robin Karlsson +2

Lorentzian correlators of local operators exhibit surprising singularities in theories with gravity duals. These are associated with null geodesics in an emergent bulk geometry. We…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

The black hole behind the cut

Stefano Giusto, Cristoforo Iossa, Rodolfo Russo

We study the analytic structure of the heavy-heavy-light-light holographic correlators in the supergravity approximation of the AdS/CFT duality. As an explicit e…

hep-th2023★ 2 cited

A thermal product formula

Matthew Dodelson, Cristoforo Iossa, Robin Karlsson +1

We show that holographic thermal two-sided two-point correlators take the form of a product over quasi-normal modes (QNMs). Due to this fact, the two-point function admits a natura…

hep-th2022★ 61 cited

Holographic thermal correlators from supersymmetric instantons

Matthew Dodelson, Alba Grassi, Cristoforo Iossa +2

We present an exact formula for the thermal scalar two-point function in four-dimensional holographic conformal field theories. The problem of finding it reduces to the analysis of…

hep-th2022★ 108 cited

Irregular Liouville correlators and connection formulae for Heun functions

Giulio Bonelli, Cristoforo Iossa, Daniel Panea Lichtig +1

We perform a detailed study of a class of irregular correlators in Liouville Conformal Field Theory, of the related Virasoro conformal blocks with irregular singularities and of th…

hep-th2019★ 37 cited

Conformality Loss, Walking, and 4D Complex Conformal Field Theories at Weak Coupling

Francesco Benini, Cristoforo Iossa, Marco Serone

Four-dimensional gauge theories with matter can have regions in parameter space, often dubbed conformal windows, where they flow in the infrared to non-trivial conformal field theo…