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Genus-2 Holographic Correlator on $AdS_5 \times S^5$ from Localization

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-26 v4

Abstract

We consider the four-point function of the stress tensor multiplet superprimary in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super-Yang-Mills (SYM) with gauge group SU(N)SU(N) in the large NN and large 't Hooft coupling λgYM2N\lambda\equiv g_\text{YM}^2N limit, which is holographically dual to the genus expansion of IIB string theory on AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5. In \cite{Binder:2019jwn} it was shown that the integral of this correlator is related to derivatives of the mass deformed N=2\mathcal{N}=2^* sphere free energy, which was computed using supersymmetric localization to leading order in 1/N21/N^2 for finite λ\lambda. We generalize this computation to any order in 1/N21/N^2 for finite λ\lambda using topological recursion, and use this any order constraint to fix the R4R^4 correction to the holographic correlator to any order in the genus expansion. We also use it to complete the derivation of the 1-loop supergravity correction, and show that analyticity in spin fails at zero spin in the large NN expansion as predicted from the Lorentzian inversion formula. In the flat space limit, the R4R^4 term in the holographic correlator matches that of the IIB S-matrix in 10d, which is a precise check of AdS5_5/CFT4_4 for local operators at genus-one. Using the flat space limit and localization we then fix D4R4D^4R^4 in the holographic correlator to any order in the genus expansion, which is nontrivial at genus-two, i.e. 1/N61/N^6. This is the first result at two orders beyond the planar limit at strong coupling for a holographic correlator.

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@article{arxiv.1908.05247,
  title  = {Genus-2 Holographic Correlator on $AdS_5 \times S^5$ from Localization},
  author = {Shai M. Chester},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.05247},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

26 pages plus appendices, 1 figure, v4 typos corrected