Revisiting Extremal Couplings in AdS/CFT
arXiv:2409.15410 · doi:10.1007/JHEP12(2024)157
Abstract
We consider an effective theory of massive scalar fields on a fixed AdS background with a cubic extremal interaction among them. A bulk coupling is called extremal whenever the corresponding conformal dimension of any of the dual CFT operators matches the sum of all the others. For cubic bulk couplings, this is . These bulk interactions are often disregarded in the literature since they do not appear in traditional models of AdS/CFT. Turning them on yields a divergent vertex in the dual CFT, and here we show that these divergences can be regulated. Once renormalized, we demonstrate that this coupling introduces non-trivial mixing between single- and double-trace operators, and we compute the anomalous dimensions of the corrected operators to leading order in perturbation theory.
20 pages + appendices, matches published version
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