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We present a simple prescription for computing conformal blocks and correlation functions holographically in AdS3 in terms of Wilson lines merging at a bulk vertex. This is shown to reproduce global conformal blocks and heavy-light Virasoro blocks. In the case of higher spin theories the space of vertices is in one-to-one correspondence with the space of \( {\mathcal{W}}_N \) conformal blocks, and we show how the latter are obtained by explicit computations.
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Besken, M., Hegde, A., Hijano, E. et al. Holographic conformal blocks from interacting Wilson lines. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 99 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)099
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