The Large N Limit of the (2,0) Superconformal Field Theory

TL;DR

This paper explores the large N limit of the six-dimensional (2,0) superconformal field theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence, analyzing spectra of supergravity and conformal operators.

Contribution

It provides a detailed analysis of the spectrum of primary operators of arbitrary spin in the (2,0) theory via supergravity methods.

Findings

Spectrum of supergravity theory reviewed

Spectrum of primary operators computed for arbitrary spin

Supports the validity of AdS/CFT in six dimensions

Abstract

We discuss the large N limit of the (2,0) field theory in six dimensions. We do this by assuming the validity of Maldacena's conjecture of the correspondence between large N gauge theories and supergravity backgrounds, here $AdS_7\times S^4$. We review the spectrum of the supergravity theory and compute the spectrum of primary operators of the conformal algebra of arbitrary spin.