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Defect two-point functions in 6D (2,0) theories

Junding Chen (陈俊定)1,2, Aleix Gimenez-Grau3, and Xinan Zhou (周稀楠)4,5,*

  • 1CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 2School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, 91440 Bures-sur-Yvette, France
  • 4Kavli Institute for Theoretical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • 5School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China

  • *Corresponding author: xinan.zhou@ucas.ac.cn
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Phys. Rev. D 109, L061903 – Published 27 March, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.109.L061903

Abstract

We consider correlation functions in 6D (2,0) theories of two 12-Bogomol’nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield (BPS) operators inserted away from a 12-BPS surface defect. In the large central-charge limit the leading connected contribution corresponds to sums of tree-level Witten diagram in AdS7×S4 in the presence of an AdS3 defect. We show that these correlators can be uniquely determined by imposing only superconformal symmetry and consistency conditions, eschewing the details of the complicated effective Lagrangian. We explicitly compute all such two-point functions. The result exhibits remarkable hidden simplicity.

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Phys. Rev. D 109, L061903– Published 27 March, 2024
  • Received 21 November 2023
  • Accepted 3 March 2024
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