Equivariant localization for AdS/CFT
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| author | Genolini, Pietro Benetti Gauntlett, Jerome P. Sparks, James |
| author_facet | Genolini, Pietro Benetti Gauntlett, Jerome P. Sparks, James |
| contents | We explain how equivariant localization may be applied to AdS/CFT to compute various BPS observables in gravity, such as central charges and conformal dimensions of chiral primary operators, without solving the supergravity equations. The key ingredient is that supersymmetric AdS solutions with an R-symmetry are equipped with a set of equivariantly closed forms. These may in turn be used to impose flux quantization and compute observables for supergravity solutions, using only topological information and the Berline--Vergne--Atiyah--Bott fixed point formula. We illustrate the formalism by considering $AdS_5\times M_6$ and $AdS_3\times M_8$ solutions of $D=11$ supergravity. As well as recovering results for many classes of well-known supergravity solutions, without using any knowledge of their explicit form, we also compute central charges for which explicit supergravity solutions have not been constructed. |
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| spellingShingle | Equivariant localization for AdS/CFT Genolini, Pietro Benetti Gauntlett, Jerome P. Sparks, James High Energy Physics - Theory We explain how equivariant localization may be applied to AdS/CFT to compute various BPS observables in gravity, such as central charges and conformal dimensions of chiral primary operators, without solving the supergravity equations. The key ingredient is that supersymmetric AdS solutions with an R-symmetry are equipped with a set of equivariantly closed forms. These may in turn be used to impose flux quantization and compute observables for supergravity solutions, using only topological information and the Berline--Vergne--Atiyah--Bott fixed point formula. We illustrate the formalism by considering $AdS_5\times M_6$ and $AdS_3\times M_8$ solutions of $D=11$ supergravity. As well as recovering results for many classes of well-known supergravity solutions, without using any knowledge of their explicit form, we also compute central charges for which explicit supergravity solutions have not been constructed. |
| title | Equivariant localization for AdS/CFT |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11701 |