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AdS$_3$ Holography at Dimension Two

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-01-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Holography can provide a microscopic interpretation of a gravitational solution as corresponding to a particular CFT state: the asymptotic expansion in gravity encodes the expectation values of operators in the dual CFT state. Such a correspondence is particularly valuable in black hole physics. We study supersymmetric D1-D5-P black holes, for which recently constructed microstate solutions known as "superstrata" provide strong motivation to derive the explicit D1-D5 holographic dictionary for CFT operators of total dimension two. In this work we derive the explicit map between one-point functions of scalar chiral primaries of dimension (1,1) and the asymptotic expansions of families of asymptotically AdS3×_3\timesS3×^3 \timesM supergravity solutions, with M either T4^4 or K3. We include all possible mixings between single-trace and multi-trace operators. We perform several tests of the holographic map, including new precision holographic tests of superstrata, that provide strong supporting evidence for the proposed dual CFT states.

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@article{arxiv.1904.12880,
  title  = {AdS$_3$ Holography at Dimension Two},
  author = {Stefano Giusto and Sami Rawash and David Turton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.12880},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

44 pages, v2: minor edits and typo fixes

R2 v1 2026-06-23T08:52:39.980Z