Abstract
We review some recent work on AdS/CFT duality involving the 3D O(N) vector model and AdS4 higher spin gravity. Our construction is based on bi-local collective field theory which provides an off-shell formulation of higher spin gravity with G = 1/N playing the role of a coupling constant. Consequently, perturbative and non-perturbative issues of the theory can be studied. For the correspondence based on free CFTs we discuss the nature of bulk 1/N interactions through an S-matrix which is argued to be equal to 1 (Coleman–Mandula theorem). As a consequence in this class of theories nonlinearities are removable, through a nonlinear field transformation which we show at the exact level. We also describe a geometric (Kähler space) framework for the bi-local theory which applies equally simply to Sp(2N) fermions and the de Sitter correspondence. We discuss in this framework the structure and size of the bi-local Hilbert space and the implementation of (finite N) exclusion principle.This article is part of a special issue of Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical devoted to ‘Higher spin theories and holography’.
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