2017/02/22 by Mert Beşken, Besken, Mert, Ashwin Hegde +3 · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Operator Algebra Research #Algebraic structures and combinatorial models #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1702.06640
openalex publication_date 2017/02/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We study the self-energy of a gravitating point particle in AdS3, and compare to operator dimensions in CFT2. In particular, we compute the one and two loop diagram contributions to the expectation value of an open Wilson line in the SL(2,R)× SL(2,R) Chern-Simons formulation of AdS3 gravity. This gives the two-point function of CFT primary operators to second order in a large c expansion, and hence yields the scaling dimension h(j,c) as a function of the SL(2,R) spin j. Comparison to CFT is made in the context of constructing Virasoro representations starting from representations of SL(2,R) current algebra. Our Wilson line computations follow the framework advanced recently by Fitzpatrick et. al., which is based on earlier work by H. Verlinde. We encounter some renormalization scheme ambiguities at the two-loop level which we are not able to fully resolve, hampering a definitive comparison with CFT expressions at this order.