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Chiral holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-05 v1

Abstract

Using twistor string theory, we engineer a gravitational holographic dual of the self-dual sector of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory. This provides a top-down example of holography at zero 't Hooft coupling. Our holographic dictionary operates at the level of D-branes wrapping twistor lines and generalizes the D-instanton prescription used to compute scattering amplitudes. As an application, we study the correlators of determinant operators that act as generating functions of half-BPS operators in the self-dual theory. We show that these correlators are dual to configurations of giant gravitons in the bulk.

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@article{arxiv.2512.04152,
  title  = {Chiral holography},
  author = {Atul Sharma and David Skinner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.04152},
  year   = {2025}
}

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81 pages

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