Free partition functions and an averaged holographic duality

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2021)130zbMath1459.83030arXiv2006.04839OpenAlexW3125481816WikidataQ112154062 ScholiaQ112154062MaRDI QIDQ2024279

Amirhossein Tajdini, Nima Afkhami-Jeddi, Henry Cohn, Thomas E. Hartman

Publication date: 3 May 2021

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the torus partition functions of free bosonic CFTs in two dimensions. Integrating over Narain moduli defines an ensemble-averaged free CFT. We calculate the averaged partition function and show that it can be reinterpreted as a sum over topologies in three dimensions. This result leads us to conjecture that an averaged free CFT in two dimensions is holographically dual to an exotic theory of three-dimensional gravity with $U(1)^c imes U(1)^c$ symmetry and a composite boundary graviton. Additionally, for small central charge $c$, we obtain general constraints on the spectral gap of free CFTs using the spinning modular bootstrap, construct examples of Narain compactifications with a large gap, and find an analytic bootstrap functional corresponding to a single self-dual boson.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04839

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryAdS-CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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