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Title: Double-trace flows and the swampland

Abstract

We explore the idea that large N, non-supersymmetric conformal field theories with a parametrically large gap to higher spin single-trace operators may be obtained as infrared fixed points of relevant double-trace deformations of superconformal field theories. After recalling the AdS interpretation and some potential pathologies of such flows, we introduce a concrete example that appears to avoid them: the ABJM theory at finite k, deformed by ∫O2, where O is the superconformal primary in the stress-tensor multiplet. We address its relation to recent conjectures based on weak gravity bounds, and discuss the prospects for a wider class of similarly viable flows. Next, we proceed to analyze the spectrum and correlation functions of the putative IR CFT, to leading non-trivial order in 1/N. This includes analytic computations of the change under double-trace flow of connected four-point functions of ABJM superconformal primaries; and of the IR anomalous dimensions of infinite classes of double-trace composite operators. These would be the first analytic results for anomalous dimensions of finite-spin composite operators in any large N CFT3 with an Einstein gravity dual.

Authors:
 [1];  [2]
  1. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics
  2. Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States). Dept. of Physics; California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Walter Burke Inst. for Theoretical Physics
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Research Org.:
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States); California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
OSTI Identifier:
1507424
Grant/Contract Number:  
FG02-91ER40671; SC0011632; PHY-1620542; 48865
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of High Energy Physics (Online); Journal Volume: 2018; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1029-8479
Publisher:
Springer Berlin
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 1/N Expansion; AdS-CFT Correspondence; Conformal Field Theory; Field Theories in Higher Dimensions

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Giombi, Simone, and Perlmutter, Eric. Double-trace flows and the swampland. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1007/jhep03(2018)026.
Giombi, Simone, & Perlmutter, Eric. Double-trace flows and the swampland. United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2018)026
Giombi, Simone, and Perlmutter, Eric. Tue . "Double-trace flows and the swampland". United States. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep03(2018)026. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1507424.
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abstractNote = {We explore the idea that large N, non-supersymmetric conformal field theories with a parametrically large gap to higher spin single-trace operators may be obtained as infrared fixed points of relevant double-trace deformations of superconformal field theories. After recalling the AdS interpretation and some potential pathologies of such flows, we introduce a concrete example that appears to avoid them: the ABJM theory at finite k, deformed by ∫O2, where O is the superconformal primary in the stress-tensor multiplet. We address its relation to recent conjectures based on weak gravity bounds, and discuss the prospects for a wider class of similarly viable flows. Next, we proceed to analyze the spectrum and correlation functions of the putative IR CFT, to leading non-trivial order in 1/N. This includes analytic computations of the change under double-trace flow of connected four-point functions of ABJM superconformal primaries; and of the IR anomalous dimensions of infinite classes of double-trace composite operators. These would be the first analytic results for anomalous dimensions of finite-spin composite operators in any large N CFT3 with an Einstein gravity dual.},
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year = {Tue Mar 06 00:00:00 EST 2018},
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