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Light-Front Bootstrap for Chern-Simons Matter Theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-07-14 v4

Abstract

We propose a new approach to solve conformal field theories and apply it to Chern-Simons Matter theories and three-dimensional bosonization duality. All three-point correlation functions of single-trace operators are obtained in the large-NN as a simple application. The idea is to construct, as an effective weakly-coupled theory, a nonlinear realization of the conformal algebra in terms of physical, gauge-invariant, operators. The efficiency of the method is also in the use of an analog of the light-cone gauge and of the momentum-space on the CFT side. AdS/CFT is used as a convenient regulator and as a source of the canonical bracket. The uniqueness of the nonlinear realization manifests the three-dimensional bosonization duality at this order. We also find two more non-unitary solutions which should be analogous to the fishnet theories. The results can also be viewed as an explicit realization of the slightly-broken higher spin symmetry. As a by-product, the cubic action of the Higher Spin Gravity in AdS4AdS_4 is constructed. While generic Higher Spin Gravities are obstructed at higher orders by nonlocality, we point out the existence of two especially simple and well-defined theories: chiral and anti-chiral whose three-point functions correspond to the two new solutions. These two theories are supposed to give a quantum complete and local example of gravitational bulk duals.

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@article{arxiv.1811.12333,
  title  = {Light-Front Bootstrap for Chern-Simons Matter Theories},
  author = {Evgeny D. Skvortsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.12333},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

27 pages; typos and a formatting issue are fixed

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