Topological defects and tensionless holography

2024/06/05 by Knighton, Bob, Sriprachyakul, Vit, Vošmera, Jakub · 2 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.03467

Abstract

We study topological defect lines in the symmetric-product orbifolds Sym^N(X) for a generic seed CFT X. We focus on the defects which preserve the maximum of the S_N symmetry. When X is taken to describe the free theory of four fermions and four bosons on a \mathbbT⁴, we construct holographically dual backgrounds describing propagation of tensionless closed strings in the presence of spacetime defects wrapping the conformal boundary. We find a precise match between the spectra of local on-shell closed-string vertex operators in the bulk and the spectra of non-local disorder fields in the spacetime theory.

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