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Simplicity of AdS Supergravity at One Loop

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-09-01 v2

Abstract

We demonstrate the simplicity of AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5 IIB supergravity at one loop level, by studying non-planar holographic four-point correlators in Mellin space. We develop a systematic algorithm for constructing one-loop Mellin amplitudes from tree-level data, and obtain a simple closed form answer for the O2SGO2SGOpSGOpSG\langle \mathcal{O}_2^{SG}\mathcal{O}_2^{SG}\mathcal{O}_p^{SG}\mathcal{O}_p^{SG} \rangle correlators. The structure of this expression is remarkably simple, containing only simultaneous poles in the Mellin variables. We also study the flat space limit of the Mellin amplitudes, which reproduces precisely the IIB supergravity one-loop amplitude in ten dimensions. Our results provide nontrivial evidence for the persistence of the hidden conformal symmetry at one loop.

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@article{arxiv.1912.02663,
  title  = {Simplicity of AdS Supergravity at One Loop},
  author = {Luis F. Alday and Xinan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.02663},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

38 pages, 2 figures; v2: minor changes, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T12:37:04.138Z