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On (spinor)-helicity and bosonization in $AdS_4/CFT_3$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-09-19 v2

Abstract

Helicity is a useful concept both for AdS4{}_4 and CFT3{}_3 studies. We work out the complete AdS4{}_4/CFT3{}_3 dictionary for spinning fields/operators in the spinor-helicity base that allows one to scalarize any nn-point contact vertex. AdS4{}_4-vertices encode correlation functions of conserved currents, stress-tensor and, more generally, higher spin currents in a simple way. We work out the dictionary for Yang-Mills- and gravity-type theories with higher derivative corrections as well as some higher spin examples and exemplify the relation to the three-dimensional bosonization duality. The bosonization can be understood as a simple surgery: vertices/correlators are built via an EM-duality transformation by sewing together (anti)-Chiral higher spin gravities, to whose existence the three-dimensional bosonization duality can be attributed (up to the proof of uniqueness).

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@article{arxiv.2207.06976,
  title  = {On (spinor)-helicity and bosonization in $AdS_4/CFT_3$},
  author = {Evgeny Skvortsov and Yihao Yin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.06976},
  year   = {2024}
}

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replaced with a published version, 55 pages

R2 v1 2026-06-25T00:55:07.966Z