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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of High Energy Physics Année : 2020

Landau diagrams in AdS and S-matrices from conformal correlators

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Quantum field theories in AdS generate conformal correlation functions on the boundary, and in the limit where AdS is nearly flat one should be able to extract an S-matrix from such correlators. We discuss a particularly simple position-space procedure to do so. It features a direct map from boundary positions to (on-shell) momenta and thereby relates cross ratios to Mandelstam invariants. This recipe succeeds in several examples, includes the momentum-conserving delta functions, and can be shown to imply the two proposals in [1] based on Mellin space and on the OPE data. Interestingly the procedure does not always work: the Landau singularities of a Feynman diagram are shown to be part of larger regions, to be called ‘bad regions’, where the flat-space limit of the Witten diagram diverges. To capture these divergences we introduce the notion of Landau diagrams in AdS. As in flat space, these describe on-shell particles propagating over large distances in a complexified space, with a form of momentum conservation holding at each bulk vertex. As an application we recover the anomalous threshold of the four-point triangle diagram at the boundary of a bad region.
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hal-02914469 , version 1 (26-02-2024)

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Shota Komatsu, Miguel F. Paulos, Balt C. van Rees, Xiang Zhao. Landau diagrams in AdS and S-matrices from conformal correlators. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020, 2020 (46), ⟨10.1007/JHEP11(2020)046⟩. ⟨hal-02914469⟩
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