AdS description of induced higher-spin gauge theory

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2013)016zbMATH Open1342.83263arXiv1306.5242MaRDI QIDQ737732FDOQ737732

Authors: Simone Giombi, Igor R. Klebanov, Silviu S. Pufu, Benjamin R. Safdi, Grigory Tarnopolsky 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: We study deformations of three-dimensional large N CFTs by double-trace operators constructed from spin s single-trace operators of dimension Delta. These theories possess UV fixed points, and we calculate the change of the 3-sphere free energy delta F= F_{UV}- F_{IR}. To describe the UV fixed point using the dual AdS_4 space we modify the boundary conditions on the spin s field in the bulk; this approach produces delta F in agreement with the field theory calculations. If the spin s operator is a conserved current, then the fixed point is described by an induced parity invariant conformal spin s gauge theory. The low spin examples are QED_3 (s=1) and the 3-d induced conformal gravity (s=2). When the original CFT is that of N conformal complex scalar or fermion fields, the U(N) singlet sector of the induced 3-d gauge theory is dual to Vasiliev's theory in AdS_4 with alternate boundary conditions on the spin s massless gauge field. We test this correspondence by calculating the leading term in delta F for large N. We show that the coefficient of (1/2)log N in delta F is equal to the number of spin s-1 gauge parameters that act trivially on the spin s gauge field. We discuss generalizations of these results to 3-d gauge theories including Chern-Simons terms and to theories where s is half-integer. We also argue that the Weyl anomaly a-coefficients of conformal spin s theories in even dimensions d, such as that of the Weyl-squared gravity in d=4, can be efficiently calculated using massless spin s fields in AdS_{d+1} with alternate boundary conditions. Using this method we derive a simple formula for the Weyl anomaly a-coefficients of the d=4 Fradkin-Tseytlin conformal higher-spin gauge fields. Similarly, using alternate boundary conditions in AdS_3 we reproduce the well-known central charge c=-26 of the bc ghosts in 2-d gravity, as well as its higher-spin generalizations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.5242

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupfield theories in lower dimensionsAdS-CFT correspondenceconformal and W symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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