Light states in Chern-Simons theory coupled to fundamental matter

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DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2013)097zbMATH Open1342.81257arXiv1207.4195OpenAlexW3104259045MaRDI QIDQ302878FDOQ302878


Authors: Shamik Banerjee, Simeon Hellerman, Jonathan Maltz, Stephen H. Shenker Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: Motivated by developments in vectorlike holography, we study SU(N) Chern-Simons theory coupled to matter fields in the fundamental representation on various spatial manifolds. On the spatial torus T^2, we find light states at small `t Hooft coupling lambda=N/k, where k is the Chern-Simons level, taken to be large. In the free scalar theory the gaps are of order sqrt {lambda}/N and in the critical scalar theory and the free fermion theory they are of order lambda/N. The entropy of these states grows like N Log(k). We briefly consider spatial surfaces of higher genus. Based on results from pure Chern-Simons theory, it appears that there are light states with entropy that grows even faster, like N^2 Log(k). This is consistent with the log of the partition function on the three sphere S^3, which also behaves like N^2 Log(k). These light states require bulk dynamics beyond standard Vasiliev higher spin gravity to explain them.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4195




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