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Bootstrapping line defects in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-02-04 v2

Abstract

We study correlators of insertions along 1/2 BPS line defects in the holographic dual to type IIB string theory in AdS3×S3×T4AdS_3 \times S^3 \times T^4 with mixed Ramond-Ramond and Neveu Schwarz-Neveu Schwarz three-form flux. These defects break the symmetries of the bulk CFT2_2 as PSU(1,12)2×SO(4)PSU(1,12)×SU(2)PSU(1,1|2)^2\times SO(4) \rightarrow PSU(1,1|2)\times SU(2), defining displacement and tilt supermultiplets. We focus on the two-, three- and four-point functions of these supermultiplets, which we compute using analytic conformal bootstrap up to next-to-leading order in their strong-coupling expansion. We obtain a bootstrap result that only depends on two OPE coefficients. We perform a Witten diagram check of the bootstrap result, obtaining an holographic interpretation of the two OPE coefficients that are not constrained by the bootstrap procedure.

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@article{arxiv.2410.02685,
  title  = {Bootstrapping line defects in AdS$_3$/CFT$_2$},
  author = {Gabriel Bliard and Diego H. Correa and Martín Lagares and Ignacio Salazar Landea},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.02685},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

41 pages, 3 figures; v2: minor changes, references added, version published in JHEP

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