Four-point functions with fractional R-symmetry excitations in the D1-D5 CFT

A bstract We study correlation functions with fractional-mode excitations of the R-symmetry currents in D1-D5 CFT. We show how fractional-mode excitations lift to the covering surface associated with correlation functions as a specific sum of integer-mode excitations, with coefficients that can be determined exactly from the covering map in terms of Bell polynomials. We consider the four-point functions of fractional excitations of two chiral/anti-chiral NS fields, Ramond ground states and the twist-two scalar modulus deformation operator that drives the CFT away from the free point. We derive explicit formulas for classes of these functions with twist structures ( n )-(2)-(2)-( n ) and ( n 1 )( n 2 )-(2)-(2)-( n 1 )( n 2 ), the latter involving double-cycle fields. The final answer for the four-point functions always depends only on the lift of the base-space cross-ratio. We discuss how this relates to Hurwitz blocks associated with different conjugacy classes of permutations, the corresponding OPE channels and fusion rules.