Component twist method for higher twists in D1D5 CFT

Understand

The deformation operator of the D1D5 orbifold CFT, a twist 2 operator, drives the CFT towards the black hole dual and its physics is key to understanding thermalization in the D1D5 system.

• To further study this deformation, we extend previous work on the effect of twist 2 operators to a method that works for higher orders, in the continuum limit.
• Our component twist method works by building higher twist operators out of twist 2 operators together with knowledge of Bogoliubov transformations.
• Consequently, this method sidesteps limitations in Lunin-Mathur technology by avoiding lifts to the covering space.