ABJ triality: from higher spin fields to strings

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/21/214009MaRDI QIDQ4928807zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Chi-Ming Chang, Shiraz Minwalla, Tarun Sharma, Xi Yin

Publication date 18 June 2013

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4485

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionssupersymmetrysymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: We demonstrate that a supersymmetric and parity violating version of Vasiliev's higher spin gauge theory in AdS${}_4$ admits boundary conditions that preserve $calN=0,1,2,3,4$ or 6 supersymmetries. In particular, we argue that the Vasiliev theory with U(M) Chan-Paton and $calN=6$ boundary condition is holographically dual to the 2+1 dimensional $U(N{)}_{k}imesU(M{)}_{-k}$ ABJ theory in the limit of large $N,k$ and finite $M$. In this system all bulk higher spin fields transform in the adjoint of the U(M) gauge group, whose bulk t'Hooft coupling is $fracMN$. Analysis of boundary conditions in Vasiliev theory allows us to determine exact relations between the parity breaking phase of Vasiliev theory and the coefficients of two and three point functions in Chern-Simons vector models at large $N$. Our picture suggests that the supersymmetric Vasiliev theory can be obtained as a limit of type IIA string theory in AdS${}_{4}imesmathbb{CP}^3$, and that the non-Abelian Vasiliev theory at strong bulk 't Hooft coupling smoothly turn into a string field theory. The fundamental string is a singlet bound state of Vasiliev's higher spin particles held together by U(M) gauge interactions. This is illustrated by the thermal partition function of free ABJ theory on a two sphere at large $M$ and $N$ even in the analytically tractable free limit. In this system the traces or strings of the low temperature phase break up into their Vasiliev particulate constituents at a U(M) deconfinement phase transition of order unity. At a higher temperature of order $T=sqrtfracNM$ Vasiliev's higher spin fields themselves break up into more elementary constituents at a U(N) deconfinement temperature, in a process described in the bulk as black hole nucleation.

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