On a new type of orbifold equivalence and M-theoretic AdS4/CFT3 duality
Volume
707
Pagination
394 - 397
Publisher
DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2011.12.052
Journal
Physics Letters B
Issue
ISSN
0370-2693
Metadata
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We consider the large-N limit of
superconformal Chern–Simons (ABJM) theory with fixed level k, which is conjectured to be dual to M-theory on
background. We point out that the so-called orbifold equivalence on the gravity side, combined with the
duality, predicts a hitherto unknown type of duality on the gauge theory side. It establishes the equivalence between a class of observables, which are not necessarily protected by supersymmetry, in strongly coupled ABJM theories away from the planar approximation, with different values of k and N but sharing common kN. This limit is vastly different from the planar limit, and hence from the gauge theory point of view the duality is more difficult to explain compared to the previously known analogous equivalence between planar gauge theories, where one can explicitly prove the equivalence diagrammatically using the dominance of the planar diagrams.
Authors
Hanada, M; Hoyos, C; Shimada, HCollections
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