Asymptotically free AdS3/CFT2

Bruno Balthazar, Amit Giveon, David Kutasov, Emil J. Martinec*

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Abstract

We propose a new AdS3/CFT2 duality, in which the bulk string theory has a target spacetime AdS3 times a squashed three-sphere S♭3, and the dual CFT2 is a symmetric product of sigma models on ℝϕ×S♭3, deformed by a ϕ-dependent ℤ2 twist operator. The duality maps the asymptotic region of AdS3 to the region ϕ → ∞, where the twist interaction in the CFT2 turns off. The AdS3 backgrounds in question have RAdS< ℓs, and so lie on the string side of the string/black hole correspondence transition. As a consequence, the high energy density of states consists of a string gas in AdS3 rather than an ensemble of BTZ black holes. This property allows us to derive the dual CFT2 by a systematic analysis of the worldsheet string theory on AdS3.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2022
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2022

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Keywords

  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • Conformal Field Models in String Theory
  • Long strings

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