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Exact Holography of the Mass-deformed M2-brane Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-06-28 v4

Abstract

We test the holographic relation between the vacuum expectation values of gauge invariant operators in N=6{\cal N} = 6 Uk(N)×Uk(N){\rm U}_k(N)\times {\rm U}_{-k}(N) mass-deformed ABJM theory and the LLM geometries with Zk\mathbb{Z}_k orbifold in 11-dimensional supergravity. To do that, we apply the Kaluza-Klein reduction to construct a 4-dimensional gravity theory and implement the holographic renormalization procedure. We obtain an exact holographic relation for the vacuum expectation values of the chiral primary operator with conformal dimension Δ=1\Delta = 1, which is given by O(Δ=1)=N32f(Δ=1)\langle {\cal O}^{(\Delta=1)}\rangle= N^{\frac32} \, f_{(\Delta=1)}, for large NN and k=1k=1. Here factor f(Δ)f_{(\Delta)} is independent of NN. Our results involve infinite number of exact dual relations for all possible supersymmetric Higgs vacua and so provide a nontrivial test of gauge/gravity duality away from the conformal fixed point. We also extend our results to the case of k1k\ne 1 for LLM geometries represented by rectangular-shaped Young-diagrams.

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@article{arxiv.1610.01490,
  title  = {Exact Holography of the Mass-deformed M2-brane Theory},
  author = {Dongmin Jang and Yoonbai Kim and O-Kab Kwon and D. D. Tolla},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01490},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

6 pages, major corrections in section 3 and 4, references added, title changed