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All Tree-Level Correlators in AdS${}_5\times$S${}_5$ Supergravity: Hidden Ten-Dimensional Conformal Symmetry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-02-20 v1

Abstract

We study correlators of four protected (half-BPS) operators in strongly coupled supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. These are dual to tree-level supergravity amplitudes on AdS5×{}_5\timesS5{}_5 for various spherical harmonics on the five-sphere. We use conformal field theory methods, in particular a recently obtained Lorentzian inversion formula, to analytically bootstrap these correlators. The extracted 1/N21/N^2 double-trace anomalous dimensions confirm a simple pattern recently conjectured by Aprile, Drummond, Heslop and Paul. We explain this pattern by an unexpected ten-dimensional conformal symmetry which appears to be enjoyed by tree-level supergravity (or a suitable subsector of it). The symmetry combines all spherical harmonics into a single ten-dimensional object, and yields compact expressions for the leading logarithmic part of any half-BPS correlator at each loop order.

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@article{arxiv.1809.09173,
  title  = {All Tree-Level Correlators in AdS${}_5\times$S${}_5$ Supergravity: Hidden Ten-Dimensional Conformal Symmetry},
  author = {Simon Caron-Huot and Anh-Khoi Trinh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09173},
  year   = {2019}
}

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36+8 pages, 5 figures