Constraints on Symmetries from Holography

Harlow, Daniel; Ooguri, Hirosi

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.191601

Title: Constraints on Symmetries from Holography

Journal Article · 17 May 2019 · Physical Review Letters

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.191601 · OSTI ID:1513311

Harlow, Daniel ^[1]; Ooguri, Hirosi ^[2]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States); Univ. of Tokyo (Japan)

In this Letter we show that a set of old conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity hold within the anti–de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence. These conjectures are that no global symmetries are possible, that internal gauge symmetries must come with dynamical objects that transform in all irreducible representations, and that internal gauge groups must be compact. These conjectures are not obviously true from a bulk perspective, they are nontrivial consequences of the nonperturbative consistency of the correspondence. More details of and background for these arguments are presented in an accompanying paper.

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Research Organization:: California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); Simons Foundation

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0011632; SC0019127; SC0018944

OSTI ID:: 1513311

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1597451

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 122, Issue 19; ISSN 0031-9007

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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