Holographic representation of bulk fields with spin in AdS/CFT

Daniel Kabat, Gilad Lifschytz, Shubho Roy, Debajyoti Sarkar

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Abstract

We develop the representation of bulk fields with spin one and spin two in anti-de Sitter space, as nonlocal observables in the dual CFT. Working in holographic gauge in the bulk, at leading order in 1/N bulk gauge fields are obtained by smearing boundary currents over a sphere on the complexified boundary, while linearized metric fluctuations are obtained by smearing the boundary stress tensor over a ball. This representation respects AdS covariance up to a compensating gauge transformation. We also consider massive vector fields, where the bulk field is obtained by smearing a nonconserved current. We compute bulk two-point functions and show that bulk locality is respected. We show how to include interactions of massive vectors using 1/N perturbation theory, and we comment on the issue of general backgrounds.

Original languageEnglish
Article number026004
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume86
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Jul 2012

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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