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All Holographic Four-Point Functions in All Maximally Supersymmetric CFTs

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-03-24 v3

Abstract

We present a constructive derivation of holographic four-point correlators of arbitrary half-BPS operators for all maximally supersymmetric conformal field theories in d>2d>2. This includes holographic correlators in 3d N=8{\cal N}=8 ABJM theories, 4d N=4{\cal N}=4 SYM theory and the 6d N=(2,0){\cal N}=(2,0) theory, dual to tree-level amplitudes in 11D supergravity on AdS4×S7AdS_4 \times S^7, 10D supergravity on AdS5×S5AdS_5 \times S^5 and 11D supergravity on AdS7×S4AdS_7 \times S^4, respectively. We introduce the concept of Maximally R-symmetry Violating (MRV) amplitude, which corresponds to a special configuration in the R-symmetry space. In this limit the amplitude drastically simplifies, but at the same time the entire polar part of the full amplitude can be recovered from this limit. Furthermore, for a specific choice of the polar part, contact terms can be shown to be absent, by using the superconformal Ward identities and the flat space limit.

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@article{arxiv.2006.12505,
  title  = {All Holographic Four-Point Functions in All Maximally Supersymmetric CFTs},
  author = {Luis F. Alday and Xinan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.12505},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

v1: 31 pages, no figure; v2: minor changes, typos corrected; v3: typos corrected, published on Physical Review X