Speaker
Prof.
William Bardeen
(Fermilab)
Description
I demonstrate the existence of a massive phase in a conformally invariant U(N)
Chern-Simons gauge theory in D=3 with matter fields in the fundamental representation. These
models have attracted recent attention as being dual, in the conformal phase, to theories of
higher spin gravity on AdS_4. Using the ‘t Hooft large N expansion, exact solutions are
obtained for scalar current correlators in the massive phase where the conformal symmetry
is spontaneously broken. A massless dilaton appears as a composite state, and its
properties are discussed. Solutions exist for matter fields that are either bosons or fermions.
Primary author
Prof.
William Bardeen
(Fermilab)
