Comments on contact terms and conformal manifolds in the AdS/CFT correspondence

DOI10.1093/PTEP/PTAA164zbMATH Open1528.81199arXiv2010.06106OpenAlexW3108320306MaRDI QIDQ6132769FDOQ6132769

Publication date: 14 July 2023

Published in: PTEP. Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the contact terms that appear in the correlation functions of exactly marginal operators using the AdS/CFT correspondence. It is known that CFT with an exactly marginal deformation requires the existence of the contact terms with their coefficients having a geometrical interpretation in the context of conformal manifolds. We show that the AdS/CFT correspondence captures properly the mathematical structure of the correlation functions that is expected from the CFT analysis. For this purpose, we employ holographic RG to formulate a most general setup in the bulk for describing an exactly marginal deformation. The resultant bulk equations of motion are nonlinear and solved perturbatively to obtain the on-shell action. We compute three- and four-point functions of the exactly marginal operators using the GKP-Witten prescription, and show that they match with the expected results precisely. The cut-off surface prescription in the bulk serves as a regularization scheme for conformal perturbation theory in the boundary CFT. As an application, we examine a double OPE limit of the four-point functions. The anomalous dimensions of double trace operators are written in terms of the geometrical data of a conformal manifold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.06106

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Formal methods and deformations in algebraic geometry (14D15) Perturbations in context of PDEs (35B20) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Nonlinear higher-order PDEs (35G20) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Conformal structures on manifolds (53C18)

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