Regge in Wonderland

The paper studies large-spin operators in conformal field theories by placing them on a pp-wave background. It maps three-point coefficients to thermal one-point functions, predicting their behavior in high and low temperatures. High temperature results use thermal effective field theory, while low temperature results match analytic bootstrap predictions. Testing confirms these predictions using free theories and numerical solutions of the O(N) model.

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