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The Three Dimensional Dual of 4D Chirality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-04 v2

Abstract

Chiral gauge theories can be defined in four-dimensional Anti de Sitter space, but AdS boundary conditions explicitly break the chiral symmetry in a specific, well defined manner, which in turns results in an anomalous Ward identity. When the 4D theory admits a dual description in terms of a 3D CFT, the 3D dual of the broken chiral symmetry is a certain double-trace deformation of the CFT, which produces the same anomalous chiral Ward identities that obtains in the 4D bulk theory.

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@article{arxiv.0908.3487,
  title  = {The Three Dimensional Dual of 4D Chirality},
  author = {M. Porrati and L. Girardello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0908.3487},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, small misprints corrected, reference [16] updated. Version to appear in JHEP