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Heavy holographic correlators in defect conformal field theories

Georgios Linardopoulos1,* and Chanyong Park2,†

  • *Contact author: george.linardopoulos@simis.cn
  • †Contact author: cyong21@gist.ac.kr
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Phys. Rev. D 114, 086015 – Published 19 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/q263-vc33

Abstract

We study holographic defect conformal field theories which are dual to probe branes with bottom-up methods. First, we determine the embedding of codimension-1 interface branes in anti–de Sitter space. Then, we compute defect one- and two-point functions of heavy scalar operators at strong coupling. We use geodesic approximations to compute reflected two-point functions in two ways as well as ambient and defect-channel two-point functions. In appropriate limits, our results agree with the operator product expansion and the boundary operator expansion.

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 086015– Published 19 October, 2026
  • Received 16 April 2026
  • Accepted 25 September 2026
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