Three-Point Functions in N=2 Higher-Spin Holography

TL;DR

This paper verifies the duality between certain supersymmetric conformal field theories and higher-spin gauge theories in AdS_3 by matching three-point functions computed from both sides, confirming the conjectured holographic correspondence.

Contribution

It provides a non-trivial check of the N=2 higher-spin holography duality by explicitly computing and matching three-point functions in the bulk and boundary theories for arbitrary spin and deformation parameter.

Findings

Exact match of three-point functions from bulk and boundary calculations.

Emergence of N=2 superconformal symmetry near the AdS_3 boundary.

Results depend only on the wedge subalgebra shs[lambda] in the 't Hooft limit.

Abstract

The CP^N Kazama-Suzuki models with the non-linear chiral algebra SW_infinity[lambda] have been conjectured to be dual to the fully supersymmetric Prokushkin-Vasiliev theory of higher-spin gauge fields coupled to two massive N=2 multiplets on AdS_3. We perform a non-trivial check of this duality by computing three-point functions containing one higher-spin gauge field for arbitrary spin s and deformation parameter lambda from the bulk theory, and from the boundary using a free ghost system based on the linear sw_infinity[lambda] algebra. We find an exact match between the two computations. In the 't Hooft limit, the three-point functions only depend on the wedge subalgebra shs[lambda] and the results are equivalent for any theory with such a subalgebra. In the process we also find the emergence of N=2 superconformal symmetry near the AdS_3 boundary by computing holographic OPE's, consistently with a recent analysis of asymptotic symmetries of higher-spin supergravity.