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    Exact results for five-dimensional superconformal field theories with gravity duals

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    We apply the technique of supersymmetric localization to exactly compute the S5S^5 partition function of several large NN superconformal field theories in five dimensions that have AdS6AdS_6 duals in massive type IIA supergravity. The localization computations are performed in the non-renormalizable effective field theories obtained through relevant deformations of the UV superconformal field theories. We compare the S5S^5 free energy to a holographic computation of entanglement entropy in the AdS6AdS_6 duals and find perfect agreement. In particular, we reproduce the N5/2N^{5/2} scaling of the S5S^5 free energy that was expected from supergravity.Comment: 21 pages, 1 figure; v2 refs added, typos fixe

    Conformal Bootstrap At Large Charge

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    We consider unitary CFTs with continuous global symmetries in d>2d>2. We consider a state created by the lightest operator of large charge Q1Q \gg 1 and analyze the correlator of two light charged operators in this state. We assume that the correlator admits a well-defined large QQ expansion and, relatedly, that the macroscopic (thermodynamic) limit of the correlator exists. We find that the crossing equations admit a consistent truncation, where only a finite number NN of Regge trajectories contribute to the correlator at leading nontrivial order. We classify all such truncated solutions to the crossing. For one Regge trajectory N=1N=1, the solution is unique and given by the effective field theory of a Goldstone mode. For two or more Regge trajectories N2N \geq 2, the solutions are encoded in roots of a certain degree NN polynomial. Some of the solutions admit a simple weakly coupled EFT description, whereas others do not. In the weakly coupled case, each Regge trajectory corresponds to a field in the effective Lagrangian.Comment: 50 pages, 1 figur
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