Journal of High Energy Physics (Jul 2024)

Reconstructing the spacetime dual to a free matrix

  • Robert de Mello Koch,
  • Pratik Roy,
  • Hendrik J. R. Van Zyl

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2024)086
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2024, no. 7
pp. 1 – 32

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Abstract In this paper we consider the collective field theory description of the singlet sector of a free matrix field in 2+1 dimensions. This necessarily involves the study of k-local collective fields, which are functions of 2k + 1 coordinates. We argue that these coordinates have a natural interpretation: the k-local collective field is a field defined on an AdS4×S k−2×S k−1 spacetime. The modes of a harmonic expansion on the S k−2×S k−1 portion of the spacetime leads to the spinning bulk fields of the dual gravity theory.

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