Self-dual holography: four-point AdS/CFT correlators in higher-spin gravity
hep-th2026-05v1license
Abstract
Self-dual theories, being UV-finite, should have their own AdS/CFT dualities. Higher-spin extensions of self-dual theories are attractive to simplify the CFT duals. The maximal self-dual theory is Chiral higher-spin gravity, which should be dual to a subsector of Chern--Simons matter theories. As a step toward establishing self-dual holography, we develop the Fefferman--Graham expansion and holographic dictionary for arbitrary spin self-dual theories. As an application, we derive bulk-to-bulk propagators and compute three- and four-point AdS/CFT correlators in a contraction of Chiral higher-spin gravity, which is a higher-spin extension of self-dual Yang--Mills theory.
Comments: 40+9 pages, 2 figures
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.30276,
title = {Self-dual holography: four-point AdS/CFT correlators in higher-spin gravity},
author = {Evgeny Skvortsov and Richard Van Dongen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.30276},
year = {2026}
}