6d (2,0) and M-theory at 1-loop
Abstract
We study the stress tensor multiplet four-point function in the 6d maximally supersymmetric and theories, which have no Lagrangian description, but in the large limit are holographically dual to weakly coupled M-theory on and , respectively. We use the analytic bootstrap to compute the 1-loop correction to this holographic correlator coming from Witten diagrams with supergravity and the first higher derivative correction 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.
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