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Title: Bounding the space of holographic CFTs with chaos

Journal Article · · Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
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  1. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States)

In this study, thermal states of quantum systems with many degrees of freedom are subject to a bound on the rate of onset of chaos, including a bound on the Lyapunov exponent, λL ≤ 2π/β. We harness this bound to constrain the space of putative holographic CFTs and their would-be dual theories of AdS gravity. First, by studying out-of-time-order four-point functions, we discuss how λL = 2π/β in ordinary two-dimensional holographic CFTs is related to properties of the OPE at strong coupling. We then rule out the existence of unitary, sparse two-dimensional CFTs with large central charge and a set of higher spin currents of bounded spin; this implies the inconsistency of weakly coupled AdS3 higher spin gravities without infinite towers of gauge fields, such as the SL(N) theories. This fits naturally with the structure of higher-dimensional gravity, where finite towers of higher spin fields lead to acausality. On the other hand, unitary CFTs with classical W[λ] symmetry, dual to 3D Vasiliev or hs[λ] higher spin gravities, do not violate the chaos bound, instead exhibiting no chaos: λL = 0. Independently, we show that such theories violate unitarity for |λ| > 2. These results encourage a tensionless string theory interpretation of the 3D Vasiliev theory.

Research Organization:
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
FG02-91ER40671
OSTI ID:
1362022
Journal Information:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online), Vol. 2016, Issue 10; ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer BerlinCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 97 works
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