Eikonal approximation in AdS/CFT: resumming the gravitational loop expansion

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2007

Authors

Lorenzo Cornalba (Author) Other; Miguel S Costa (Author) FCUP; Joao Penedones (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: Journal of High Energy Physics

Vol. 2007

Pages: 037-037

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Scientific classification

FOS: Natural sciences > Physical sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-004-7X9

DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/037

Abstract (EN): We derive an eikonal approximation to high energy interactions in Anti-de Sitter spacetime, by generalizing a position space derivation of the eikonal amplitude in flat space. We are able to resum, in terms of a generalized phase shift, ladder and cross ladder graphs associated to the exchange of a spin j field, to all orders in the coupling constant. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, the resulting amplitude determines the behavior of the dual conformal field theory four-point function < O1O2O1O2 > for small values of the cross ratios, in a Lorentzian regime. Finally we show that the phase shift is dominated by graviton exchange and computes, in the dual CFT, the anomalous dimension of the double trace primary operators O-1 partial derivative...partial derivative O-2 of large dimension and spin, corresponding to the relative motion of the two interacting particles. The results are valid at strong t'Hooft coupling and are exact in the 1/N expansion.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific