The Grassmannian-like Coset Model and the Higher Spin Currents

TL;DR

This paper extends the analysis of higher spin currents in a Grassmannian-like coset model, calculating new operator product expansions and identifying novel spin-4 currents, thus supporting the Gaberdiel-Gopakumar conjecture.

Contribution

It computes new OPEs for higher spin currents in the coset model and explicitly constructs the associated spin-4 currents for generic parameters.

Findings

Derived OPEs between various higher spin currents.

Identified new charged and neutral spin-4 currents.

Connected structure constants to asymptotic symmetries in higher spin theory.

Abstract

In the Grassmannian-like coset model, $\frac{SU(N+M)_k}{SU(N)_k \times U(1)_{k N M (N+M)}}$, Creutzig and Hikida have found the charged spin-$2,3$ currents and the neutral spin-$2,3$ currents previously. In this paper, as an extension of Gaberdiel-Gopakumar conjecture found ten years ago, we calculate the operator product expansion (OPE) between the charged spin-$2$ current and itself, the OPE between the charged spin-$2$ current and the charged spin-$3$ current and the OPE between the neutral spin-$3$ current and itself for generic $N, M$ and $k$. From the second OPE, we obtain the new charged quasi primary spin-$4$ current while from the last one, the new neutral primary spin-$4$ current is found implicitly. The infinity limit of $k$ in the structure constants of the OPEs is described in the context of asymptotic symmetry of $M \times M$ matrix generalization of $AdS_3$ higher spin theory. Moreover, the OPE between the charged spin-$3$ current and itself is determined for fixed $(N,M)=(5,4)$ with arbitrary $k$ up to the third order pole. We also obtain the OPEs between charged spin-$1,2,3$ currents and neutral spin-$3$ current. From the last OPE, we realize that there exists the presence of the above charged quasi primary spin-$4$ current in the second order pole for fixed $(N,M)=(5,4)$. We comment on the complex free fermion realization.