AdS from CFT for scalar QED

Abstract

We construct an explicit bulk dual in anti-de Sitter space, with couplings of order $1/N$, for the $SU(N)$-singlet sector of QED in $d$ space-time dimensions ($2<d<4$) coupled to $N$ scalar fields. We begin from the bulk dual for the theory of $N$ complex free scalar fields that we constructed in our previous work, and couple this to $U(1)$ gauge fields living on the boundary in order to get the bulk dual of scalar QED (in which the $U(1)$ gauge fields become the boundary value of the bulk vector fields). As in our previous work, the bulk dual is non-local but we can write down an explicit action for it. We focus on the CFTs arising at low energies (or, equivalently, when the $U(1)$ gauge coupling goes to infinity). For $d=3$ we discuss also the addition of a Chern-Simons term for $U(1)$, modifying the boundary conditions for the bulk gauge field. We also discuss the generalization to QCD, with $U(N_c)$ gauge fields coupled to $N$ scalar fields in the fundamental representation (in the large $N$ limit with fixed $N_c$).

28 pages plus appendices, 3 figures

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