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Two-particle spectrum of tensor multiplets coupled to $AdS_3\times S^3$ gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-25 v2

Abstract

We study the spectrum of certain two-particle operators in the supergravity regime of the D1-D5 system, focussing on the four-point correlators of tensor multiplets on AdS3×S3AdS_3\times S^3 at tree level. In Mellin space, these are nicely determined by a single amplitude, which makes manifest the large pp limit, the connection with the flat space S-matrix, and the six dimensional conformal symmetry. We compute the (1,1)×(1,1)(1,1)\times \overline{(1,1)} superconformal blocks for the two-dimensional N=(4,4)\mathcal{N}=(4,4) conformal theory at the boundary, and then we obtain a formula for the anomalous dimensions of the operators exchanged in the symmetric and anti-symmetric flavor channels. These anomalous dimensions solve an unmixing problem which is analogous to the one in AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5, with interesting modifications. Along the way we show how the (1,1)×(1,1)(1,1)\times \overline{(1,1)} superconformal blocks relate to those in N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM in four dimensions, and we provide new intuition on the known data for AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5.

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@article{arxiv.2104.00036,
  title  = {Two-particle spectrum of tensor multiplets coupled to $AdS_3\times S^3$ gravity},
  author = {Francesco Aprile and Michele Santagata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.00036},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

v1 5 pages; v2 some typos fixed, extended version, match PRD version