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Unitarity method for holographic defects

Junding Chen (陈俊定)1,2, Aleix Gimenez-Grau3, Hynek Paul4, and Xinan Zhou (周稀楠)5,6,*

  • *Contact author: xinan.zhou@ucas.ac.cn
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Phys. Rev. D 111, L041703 – Published 25 February, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.L041703

Abstract

We initiate the study of loop-level holographic correlators in the presence of defects. We present a unitarity method that constructs loop corrections from lower order data. As an example, we apply this method to 6D N=(2,0) theories with 12-BPS surface defects and report the first holographic two-point function at one loop.

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Phys. Rev. D 111, L041703– Published 25 February, 2025
  • Received 1 July 2024
  • Accepted 3 February 2025
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