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arxiv: 2605.30970 · v1 · pith:UGLH5FNTnew · submitted 2026-05-29 · ✦ hep-th

Towards Bulk Locality: A Systematic Construction of Contact Interactions from Chord Diagrams

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keywords bulkcontactchorddiagramscorrelatorsinteractionsboundaryclass
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Chord diagrams encode boundary correlators in the double-scaled holographic Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, but currently capture only a limited class of bulk interactions that yield pure power-law correlators. In this article, we investigate a general construction based on Fock-space flux models with arbitrary periodic lattice size, clarifies how lattice dimensions control probe configurations and bulk contact vertices. Developing a systematic matching scheme and using the chord path integral formalism, we compute three- to six-point contact correlators and reproduce a broad class of AdS$_2$ scalar contact Witten diagrams, including those with logarithmic singularities. The results demonstrate that chord diagrams, in full generality, provide a microscopic description of bulk contact interactions and thereby establish a principled framework for reconstructing bulk locality from boundary data.

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