Anomalous conformal currents, shadow fields and massive AdS fields

TL;DR

This paper develops a gauge invariant framework for anomalous conformal currents and shadow fields of arbitrary spin, establishing their relation to massive AdS fields via the AdS/CFT correspondence, with simplified gauge conditions.

Contribution

It introduces a gauge invariant approach for arbitrary spin anomalous conformal currents and shadow fields, and explores their connection to massive AdS fields using a modified de Donder gauge.

Findings

Derived gauge invariant differential constraints for anomalous conformal fields.

Established the AdS/CFT correspondence for arbitrary spin fields.

Simplified the study of AdS/CFT using modified de Donder gauge.

Abstract

In the framework of gauge invariant approach involving Stueckelberg and auxiliary fields, totally symmetric arbitrary spin anomalous conformal current and shadow field in flat space-time of dimension greater than or equal to four are studied. Gauge invariant differential constraints for such anomalous conformal current and shadow field and realization of global conformal symmetries are obtained. Gauge invariant two-point vertex of the arbitrary spin anomalous shadow field is also obtained. In Stueckelberg gauge frame, the two-point gauge invariant vertex becomes the standard two-point vertex of CFT. Light-cone gauge two-point vertex of the arbitrary spin anomalous shadow field is derived. The AdS/CFT correspondence for arbitrary spin anomalous conformal current and shadow field and the respective normalizable and non-normalizable modes of massive arbitrary spin AdS field is studied. The AdS field is considered in modified de Donder gauge which simplifies considerably the study of AdS/CFT correspondence. We show that on-shell leftover gauge symmetries of bulk massive field are related to gauge symmetries of boundary anomalous conformal current and shadow field, while the modified de Donder gauge condition for bulk massive field is related to differential constraints for boundary anomalous conformal current and shadow field.