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Deriving the $\text{AdS}_{3}/\text{CFT}_{2}$ Correspondence

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arxiv 1911.00378 v2 pith:ZIV4XSTD submitted 2019-11-01 hep-th

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It was recently argued that string theory on ${\rm AdS}_3\times {\rm S}^3\times \mathbb{T}^4$ with one unit ($k=1$) of NS-NS flux is exactly dual to the symmetric orbifold CFT ${\rm Sym}^N(\mathbb{T}^4)$. In this paper we show how to directly relate the $n$-point correlators of the two sides to one another. In particular, we argue that the correlators of the world-sheet theory are delta-function-localised in string moduli space to those configurations that allow for a holomorphic covering map of the $\text{S}^2$-boundary of $\text{AdS}_3$ by the world-sheet. This striking feature can be seen both from a careful Ward identity analysis, as well as from semi-classically exact AdS$_3$ solutions that are pinned to the boundary. The world-sheet correlators therefore have exactly the same structure as in the Lunin-Mathur construction of symmetric orbifold CFT correlators in terms of a covering surface -- which now gets identified with the world-sheet. Together with the results of arXiv:1803.04423 and arXiv:1812.01007 this essentially demonstrates how the $k=1$ $\text{AdS}_3$ string theory becomes equivalent to the spacetime orbifold CFT in the genus expansion.

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