Dec 15 – 16, 2022
Centre for Particle Theory, Durham
Europe/London timezone

A covering map description for AdS3/CFT2

Dec 16, 2022, 10:10 AM
30m
Ph8 (zoom room 1) (Centre for Particle Theory, Durham)

Ph8 (zoom room 1)

Centre for Particle Theory, Durham

Department of Physics Durham University South Road Durham DH1 3LE
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Speaker

Nathan McStay (University of Cambridge)

Description

It has recently been argued by Gaberdiel, Gopakumar et al. that type IIB string theory on $AdS_3 \times S^3 \times \mathbb{T}^4$ in the tensionless limit is exactly dual to the symmetric orbifold CFT $\text{Sym}^N(\mathbb{T}^4)$ in the large $N$ limit. One fascinating feature of this duality is that it is rendered manifest by a localisation of the physical correlators of tensionless strings to points in moduli space where a covering map exists, mapping the worldsheet to the boundary. In this talk, I will present my own argument for this localisation and demonstrate that it arises from the presence of a particular weight 3 gauge symmetry in the theory. This will allow us to extend the results in the literature to show that the localisation holds even for correlators containing non-highest weight states.

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Primary author

Nathan McStay (University of Cambridge)

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