English

6d (2,0) and M-theory at 1-loop

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-07-26 v4

Abstract

We study the stress tensor multiplet four-point function in the 6d maximally supersymmetric (2,0)(2,0) AN1A_{N-1} and DND_N theories, which have no Lagrangian description, but in the large NN limit are holographically dual to weakly coupled M-theory on AdS7×S4AdS_7\times S^4 and AdS7×S4/Z2AdS_7\times S^4/\mathbb{Z}_2, respectively. We use the analytic bootstrap to compute the 1-loop correction to this holographic correlator coming from Witten diagrams with supergravity RR and the first higher derivative correction R4R^4 vertices, which is the first 1-loop correction computed for a non-Lagrangian theory. We then take the flat space limit and find precise agreement with the corresponding terms in the 11d M-theory S-matrix, some of which we compute for the first time using two-particle unitarity cuts.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.07175,
  title  = {6d (2,0) and M-theory at 1-loop},
  author = {Luis F. Alday and Shai M. Chester and Himanshu Raj},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.07175},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

35 pages plus appendices, v4 typos corrected, accepted to JHEP

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