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Defect two-point functions in 6d (2,0) theories

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-10-31 v1

Abstract

We consider correlation functions in 6d (2,0)(2,0) theories of two 12\frac{1}{2}-BPS operators inserted away from a 12\frac{1}{2}-BPS surface defect. In the large central charge limit the leading connected contribution corresponds to sums of tree-level Witten diagram in AdS7×_7\timesS4^4 in the presence of an AdS3_3 defect. We show that these correlators can be uniquely determined by imposing only superconformal symmetry and consistency conditions, eschewing the details of the complicated effective Lagrangian. We explicitly compute all such two-point functions. The result exhibits remarkable hidden simplicity.

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@article{arxiv.2310.19230,
  title  = {Defect two-point functions in 6d (2,0) theories},
  author = {Junding Chen and Aleix Gimenez-Grau and Xinan Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.19230},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, 1 ancillary Mathematica notebook

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