Towards a flat space Carrollian hologram from AdS₄/CFT₃

Lipstein, Arthur; Ruzziconi, Romain; Srikant, Akshay Yelleshpur

Abstract

Finding a concrete example holography in four dimensional asymptotically flat space is an important open problem. A natural strategy is to take the flat space limit of the celebrated AdS₄/CFT₃ correspondence, which relates M-theory in AdS₄×S⁷ to a certain superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theory known as the ABJM theory. In this limit, the boundary of AdS₄ becomes null infinity and the ABJM theory should exhibit an emergent superconformal Carrollian symmetry. We investigate this possibility by matching the Carrollian limit of ABJM correlators with four-dimensional supergravity amplitudes that arise from taking the flat space limit of AdS₄×S⁷ and reducing along the S⁷. We also present a general analysis of three-dimensional superconformal Carrollian symmetry.

Citation

Lipstein, A., Ruzziconi, R., & Srikant, A. Y. (2025). Towards a flat space Carrollian hologram from AdS₄/CFT₃. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2025(6), Article 73. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282025%29073

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 30, 2025
• Online Publication Date: Jun 9, 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Deposit Date: Jun 12, 2025
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 12, 2025
• Journal: Journal of High Energy Physics
• Print ISSN: 1126-6708
• Electronic ISSN: 1029-8479
• Publisher: Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 2025
• Issue: 6
• Article Number: 73
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep06%282025%29073
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4095159