Twist operators in higher dimensions

@article{Hung2014TwistOI,
  title={Twist operators in higher dimensions},
  author={Ling-Yan Hung and Robert C. Myers and Michael Smolkin},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2014},
  volume={2014},
  pages={1-45}
}
A bstractWe study twist operators in higher dimensional CFT’s. In particular, we express their conformal dimension in terms of the energy density for the CFT in a particular thermal ensemble. We construct an expansion of the conformal dimension in power series around n =1, with n being replica parameter. We show that the coefficients in this expansion are determined by higher point correlations of the energy-momentum tensor. In particular, the first and second terms, i.e. the first and second… 
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