Paper
A Holographic Constraint on Scale Separation
Authors
Nikolay Bobev, Hynek Paul, Filippo Revello
Abstract
We propose a new consistency condition for the compatibility of a gravitational effective field theory in AdS with a dual holographic description in terms of a family of large- CFTs. Using large- factorization of correlation functions combined with a properly defined notion of single- and multi-particle operators, we argue that the cubic scalar bulk couplings for fields dual to operators with extremal arrangements of the conformal dimensions, i.e. , should vanish. We apply this criterion to the 4d effective supergravity theory describing the simplest DGKT AdS vacua in type IIA string theory and show that it is non-trivially satisfied. In addition, we calculate explicitly all non-vanishing three-point correlation functions of low-lying scalar operators in the putative 3d CFTs dual to these AdS string theory backgrounds.