Boundary terms and three-point functions: an AdS/CFT puzzle resolved

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2017)053zbMATH Open1380.81316arXiv1611.01888MaRDI QIDQ683142FDOQ683142

Nicholas P. Warner, Krzysztof Pilch, Silviu S. Pufu, Daniel Z. Freedman

Publication date: 5 February 2018

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

Abstract: $calN=8$ superconformal field theories, such as the ABJM theory at Chern-Simons level $k=1$ or $2$, contain 35 scalar operators ${calO}_{IJ}$ with $Delta=1$ in the $$ representation of SO(8). The 3-point correlation function of these operators is non-vanishing, and indeed can be calculated non-perturbatively in the field theory. But its AdS${}_4$ gravity dual, obtained from gauged $calN=8$ supergravity, has no cubic $A^3$ couplings in its Lagrangian, where $A^{IJ}$ is the bulk dual of ${calO}_{IJ}$. So conventional Witten diagrams cannot furnish the field theory result. We show that the extension of bulk supersymmetry to the AdS${}_4$ boundary requires the introduction of a finite $A^3$ counterterm that does provide a perfect match to the 3-point correlator. Boundary supersymmetry also requires infinite counterterms which agree with the method of holographic renormalization. The generating functional of correlation functions of the $Delta=1$ operators is the Legendre transform of the on-shell action, and the supersymmetry properties of this functional play a significant role in our treatment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01888

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zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceextended supersymmetrysupergravity models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Supergravity (83E50)

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