Dualities from higher-spin supergravity

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Dualities from higher-spin supergravity

Cheng Peng

High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 28 Nov 2012

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The authors' main claim Thus a duality is found between the two UV theories in the sense that the two theories, each with a chemical potential turned on, flow to the same IR theory.

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We study the vacuum structure of spin-3 higher-spin supergravity in AdS_3 spacetime. The theory can be written as a Chern-Simons theory based on the Lie superalgebra sl(3|2). We find three distinct AdS_3 vacua, AdS^(1), AdS^(2) and AdS^(p), each corresponding to one embedding of the osp(1|2) subalgebra into the sl(3|2) algebra. We explicitly construct the RG flows from AdS^(1) to AdS^(p) and from AdS^(2) to AdS^(p), which identifies AdS^(p) as an IR vacuum and AdS^(1), AdS^(2) as two different UV vacua. Thus a duality is found between the two UV theories in the sense that the two theories, each with a chemical potential turned on, flow to the same IR theory. Moreover, we identify a similar structure in the Hamiltonian reductions of the 2d Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model with sl(3|2)-valued currents by matching the chiral symmetries there with the asymptotic symmetries of the three different embeddings. Our computation gives an RG interpretation of (certain types of) the Hamiltonian reductions. In addition, it gives a hint of a duality between the 3d higher-spin supergravity and some conformally extended super-Toda theory as suggested by Mansfield and Spence for the bosonic case.

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We study the vacuum structure of spin-3 higher-spin supergravity in AdS_3 spacetime. The theory can be written as a Chern-Simons theory based on the Lie superalgebra sl(3|2). We find three distinct AdS_3 vacua, AdS^(1), AdS^(2) and AdS^(p), each corresponding to one embedding of the osp(1|2) subalgebra into the sl(3|2) algebra. We explicitly construct the RG flows from AdS^(1) to AdS^(p) and from AdS^(2) to AdS^(p), which identifies AdS^(p) as an IR vacuum and AdS^(1), AdS^(2) as two different UV vacua. Thus a duality is found between the two UV theories in the sense that the two theories, each with a chemical potential turned on, flow to the same IR theory. Moreover, we identify a similar structure in the Hamiltonian reductions of the 2d Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) model with sl(3|2)-valued currents by matching the chiral symmetries there with the asymptotic symmetries of the three different embeddings. Our computation gives an RG interpretation of (certain types of) the Hamiltonian reductions. In addition, it gives a hint of a duality between the 3d higher-spin supergravity and some conformally extended super-Toda theory as suggested by Mansfield and Spence for the bosonic case.

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This generalises similar studies for situations with less supersymmetry [ref] .

The symmetry of large N=4 holography · Introduction · 0.97

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This is one of the main differences relative to our work: we treat the sources of the higher spin black hole as a deformation of the CFT Hamiltonian, whereas [ref] utilize a holomorphic deformation of the solution.

Extremal Higher Spin Black Holes · Discussion · 0.97

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In the principal embedding of $sl(2|1)$ in $sl(3|2)$ [ref] , the even-graded sector of the superalgebra is decomposed into the $sl(2)$ generators, $L_i$, one spin 1 multiplet, $A_i$, one spin 2 multiplet, $W_m$, and a spin 0 element, $J$.

A note on the $\mathcal{N}=2$ super-$\mathcal{W}_3$ holographic dictionary · Definition and (anti-)commutation relations · 0.80
The Lie superalgebra $sl(3|2)$ is a natural extension of $sl(3,)$, and $sl(3|2)$ Chern-Simons theory has been studied in the past, see for example [ref] .

Higher Spin Chern-Simons Theory and the Super Boussinesq hierarchy · N=2 Super Boussinesq hierarchy · 0.94
Recently, some classical geometry in the higher spin supergravity by $sl(N+1|N) ⊕sl(N+1|N)$ Chern-Simons theory has been investigated in [ref] .

Conical defects and N=2 higher spin holography · Introduction · 0.93

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Besides, the argument to circumvent this non-unitarity in [ref] may be extended to the supersymmetric case as well.

Semi-classical unitarity in 3-dimensional higher-spin gravity for non-principal embeddings · A remark on the central charge · 0.99

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Following the procedure in [ref] for the bosonic case and [ref] in the supersymmetric case, we can derive the asymptotic symmetries corresponding to the 3 different embeddings that we presented in section [ref], [ref], and [ref].

Asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional gravity coupled to higher-spin fields · The asymptotic symmetry · 0.96
Following the procedure in [ref] for the bosonic case and [ref] in the supersymmetric case, we can derive the asymptotic symmetries corresponding to the 3 different embeddings that we presented in section [ref], [ref], and [ref].

Symmetries of Holographic Minimal Models · The asymptotic symmetry · 0.96
Following the procedure in [ref] for the bosonic case and [ref] in the supersymmetric case, we can derive the asymptotic symmetries corresponding to the 3 different embeddings that we presented in section [ref], [ref], and [ref].

Symmetries of Holographic Super-Minimal Models · The asymptotic symmetry · 0.96

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Note that this gives an explicit Racah basis realization of the truncated $shs[ł]$ algebra given in [ref] .The connection to the result in [ref] is through the map $J→L^(3/2)_m , L_m→L^(2)_m , K_m →L^(5/2)_m , W_m→L_m^(3) .$ In [ref], $L_i$ are the bosonic generators of the $osp(1|2)$ subalgebra, $K_i$ generate the other spin-1 representation, namely the $'_1$ in [ref]. $W_i$ form the spin-2 representation and $J$ is a singlet.

Symmetries of Holographic Super-Minimal Models · The asymptotic symmetry of the principal embedding · 0.92
This is similar to what happened in the bosonic case [ref] , and is not a violation of the $c$-theorem since the RG flow is triggered by Lorentz violating operator deformations.

Spacetime Geometry in Higher Spin Gravity · A remark on the central charge · 0.80
All different numerical factors are present to make sure that the global charge has the following formNote that we take a different approach here comparing to the computation in [ref] where the numerical factors are multiplied to the components in $$ ($N_i$ in [ref] and $N_i^B(F)$ in [ref] ).

Symmetries of Holographic Minimal Models · The asymptotic symmetry of the principal embedding · 0.98

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The close relation between the classical Hamiltonian reduction of some Lie (super)algebra and the asymptotic symmetry algebra of the higher-spin theory based on the same Lie (super)algebra has been known in the literature, see e.g. [ref] .

Asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional gravity coupled to higher-spin fields · Relation with the Hamiltonian reductions of the WZW model · 0.93
The close relation between the classical Hamiltonian reduction of some Lie (super)algebra and the asymptotic symmetry algebra of the higher-spin theory based on the same Lie (super)algebra has been known in the literature, see e.g. [ref] .

Symmetries of Holographic Minimal Models · Relation with the Hamiltonian reductions of the WZW model · 0.93
The close relation between the classical Hamiltonian reduction of some Lie (super)algebra and the asymptotic symmetry algebra of the higher-spin theory based on the same Lie (super)algebra has been known in the literature, see e.g. [ref] .

Partition Functions of Holographic Minimal Models · Relation with the Hamiltonian reductions of the WZW model · 0.93

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