Electric-magnetic duality and deformations of three-dimensional conformal field theories
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Authors
De Haro, S
Gao, P
Publication Date
2007-11Journal Title
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
ISSN
1550-7998
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Volume
76
Issue
10
Type
Article
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De Haro, S., & Gao, P. (2007). Electric-magnetic duality and deformations of three-dimensional conformal field theories. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 76 (10) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.106008
Abstract
SL(2,Z) duality transformations in asymptotically AdS4 x S^7 act
non-trivially on the three-dimensional SCFT of coincident M2-branes on the
boundary. We show how S-duality acts away from the IR fixed point. We develop a
systematic method to holographically obtain the deformations of the boundary
CFT and show how electric-magnetic duality relates different deformations. We
analyze in detail marginal deformations and deformations by dimension 4
operators. In the case of massive deformations, the RG flow relates S-dual
CFT's. Correlation functions in the CFT are computed by varying magnetic bulk
sources, whereas correlation functions in the dual CFT are computed by electric
bulk sources. Under massive deformations, the boundary effective action is
generically minimized by massive self-dual configurations of the U(1) gauge
field. We show that a self-dual choice of boundary conditions exists, and it
corresponds to the self-dual topologically massive gauge theory in 2+1
dimensions. Thus, self-duality in three dimensions can be understood as a
consequence of electric-magnetic invariance in the bulk of AdS4.
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.76.106008
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274972
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