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Conformal Blocks Beyond the Semi-Classical Limit
A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Jared Kaplan
Black hole microstates and their approximate thermodynamic properties can be studied using heavy-light correlation functions in AdS/CFT. Universal features of these correlators can…
Hawking from Catalan
A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Jared Kaplan, Matthew T. Walters +1
The Virasoro algebra determines all `graviton' matrix elements in AdS/CFT. We study the explicit exchange of any number of Virasoro gravitons between heavy and light CFT$_2…
Eikonalization of Conformal Blocks
A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Jared Kaplan, Matthew T. Walters +1
Classical field configurations such as the Coulomb potential and Schwarzschild solution are built from the t-channel exchange of many light degrees of freedom. We study the CFT ana…
Virasoro Conformal Blocks and Thermality from Classical Background Fields
A. Liam Fitzpatrick, Jared Kaplan, Matthew T. Walters
We show that in 2d CFTs at large central charge, the coupling of the stress tensor to heavy operators can be re-absorbed by placing the CFT in a non-trivial background metric. This…