A Non-Supersymmetric Large-N 3D CFT And Its Gravity Dual

TL;DR

This paper introduces a non-supersymmetric 3D conformal field theory at large N, which is related to a known M2-brane theory and has a proposed gravity dual in 11D supergravity.

Contribution

It presents a new non-supersymmetric large-N 3D CFT with a gravity dual, extending the landscape of AdS/CFT correspondence beyond supersymmetric models.

Findings

The theory is planar equivalent to the ABJM model in a bosonic sector.

A brane realization in type 0B string theory is discussed.

An 11D gravity dual is proposed as a projection of M-theory on AdS4 x S7/Z_k.

Abstract

We propose a three dimensional non-supersymmetric theory that is conformal in the large N limit. In a certain well defined bosonic sub-sector of gauge invariant operators, this theory is planar equivalent to the theory recently proposed by Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis and Maldacena as the theory on multiple M2 branes at an orbifold singularity. We discuss the realization of the theory on a brane configuration of type 0B string theory. Moreover, we propose an 11D gravity dual, obtained by a projection of M-theory on AdS4 x S7 / Z_k.