Four dimensional Abelian duality and SL(2, Z) action in three dimensional conformal field theory

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2004.V8.N5.A5MaRDI QIDQ2493543zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto Zucchini

Publication date 20 June 2006

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0311143

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Miscellaneous applications of number theory (11Z05) Applications of PDEs on manifolds (58J90) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

Abstract: Recently, Witten showed that there is a natural action of the group SL(2,Z) on the space of 3 dimensional conformal field theories with U(1) global symmetry and a chosen coupling of the symmetry current to a background gauge field on a 3-fold N. He further argued that, for a class of conformal field theories, in the nearly Gaussian limit, this SL(2,Z) action may be viewed as a holographic image of the well-known SL(2,Z) Abelian duality of a pure U(1) gauge theory on AdS-like 4-folds M bounded by N, as dictated by the AdS/CFT correspondence. However, he showed that explicitly only for the generator T; for the generator S, instead, his analysis remained conjectural. In this paper, we propose a solution of this problem. We derive a general holographic formula for the nearly Gaussian generating functional of the correlators of the symmetry current and, using this, we show that Witten's conjecture is indeed correct when N=S^3. We further identify a class of homology 3-spheres N for which Witten's conjecture takes a particular simple form.

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