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AdS$_3$ four-point functions from $\frac{1}{8}$-BPS states

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-06-24 v2

Abstract

We compute four-point functions in the Heavy-Heavy-Light-Light limit involving all possible 18\frac{1}{8}-BPS heavy states whose dual supergravity solutions are explicitly known, avoiding the use of Witten diagrams. This is achieved by using the AdS/CFT dictionary of type IIB supergravity on AdS3×S3×M4_3 \times S^3 \times {\cal M}_4 that maps supersymmetric heavy operators whose conformal dimension is the order of the central charge to explicit asymptotically AdS supergravity solutions. Using the Ward Identities for the generators of the N=(4,4){\cal N}=(4,4) superconformal SU(2)SU(2) Kac-Moody algebra, we can relate all of these four-point functions to each other and to other known four-point functions involving 14\frac{1}{4}-BPS heavy states, furnishing non-trivial checks of the computations. Finally, the Ward Identities can be employed to reconstruct the all-light four-point functions, providing the first holographic correlators of single-trace operators computed in AdS3_3 involving 18\frac{1}{8}-BPS operators.

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@article{arxiv.1904.02656,
  title  = {AdS$_3$ four-point functions from $\frac{1}{8}$-BPS states},
  author = {Alessandro Bombini and Andrea Galliani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.02656},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

38 pages, 3 figures. v2: matches the published version on JHEP; some references added; minor typos corrected