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  "abstract": "We establish a correspondence between conformal partial waves on flat, thermal, and defect backgrounds using the shadow formalism. We demonstrate that scalar one-point thermal blocks can be systematically obtained from their four-point flat-space and two-point defect counterparts by considering specific operator configurations. This framework allows us to derive the thermal Casimir equation as a diagonal reduction of the flat-space Casimir system without introducing chemical potentials. We further show that defect two-point blocks with a spin-$l$ exchange operator correspond to thermal one-point blocks for an external spin-$l$ operator.",
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      "name": "Semyon Mandrygin"
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      "name": "Vladimir Samsonov"
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  "title": "Thermal conformal partial waves from flat-space and defect CFT",
  "title_text": "Thermal conformal partial waves from flat-space and defect CFT",
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