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We study loop amplitudes in anti de-Sitter space via the spectral representation. We consider loops of spinning fields and in particular gauge fields, and derive various identities connecting different families of loop diagrams, at different number of loops, different spins, different masses. Such identities are useful for the computation of Witten diagrams. Considering the theory of large-Nf conformal scalar QED defined on AdS space, we derive an analytic expression for the exact 4-point correlation function at sub-leading order in \( \frac{1}{N_f} \). Additionally, we derive analytic expressions for bulk 2-point functions and boundary 4-point functions for various families of diagrams, which we denote as “blob diagrams”. Finally we study 4-point ladder diagrams with spinning fields, and we derive integral expressions for the spectral representation of a k-loop ladder diagram.
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I thank Lorenzo Di Pietro and Ankur Ankur for discussions. This work was supported by the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) grant number 1487/21, and by the MOST NSF/BSF physics grant number 2022726.
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Carmi, D. Loops in AdS: from the spectral representation to position space. Part III. J. High Energ. Phys. 2024, 193 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2024)193
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