AdS asymptotic symmetries from CFT mirrors

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2019)017MaRDI QIDQ2421050zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Rashmish K. Mishra, Arif Mohd, Raman Sundrum

Publication date 8 June 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.07331

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceChern-Simons theoriesconformal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: We study Kac-Moody asymptotic symmetries and memory effects in $ext{AdS}_4^{extPoincare}$ gauge theory and (when accompanied by 4D gravity) in its holographic CFT${}_3$ dual. While such infinite-dimensional symmetries are absent in standard asymptotic analyses of $ext{AdS}_4$, we show how they arise with alternate AdS boundary conditions. In the 3D holographic description, these alternate boundary conditions correspond to a modified $widetilde{extCFT}_3$ obtained by Chern-Simons gauging of the CFT${}_3$ dual defined by standard boundary conditions, so that Kac-Moody symmetries then follow from the familiar Chern-Simons/Wess-Zumino-Witten correspondence. Apart from their own intrinsic interest, in abelian $ext{AdS}_4$ gauge theories these alternate boundary conditions are equivalent to standard boundary conditions imposed on electric-magnetic dual variables. In the holographic description this corresponds to 3D "mirror" symmetries connecting the original and modified CFTs. Further, in both abelian and non-abelian theories we show that the alternative/$widetilde{extCFT}_3$ theory emerges at leading order in large Chern-Simons level from the correlators of the standard theory, upon incorporating large-wavelength limits in the holographically emergent dimension. We point out similarities and differences between 4D AdS and Minkowski gauge theories in their asymptotic symmetries, "soft" limits and memory effects.

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