Top-Down Holography in an Asymptotically Flat Spacetime

Abstract

We propose a holographic duality for a four dimensional Wess-Zumino-Witten model with target manifold SO(8), coupled to scalar-flat Kähler gravity on an asymptotically flat, four dimensional background known as the Burns metric. The holographic dual is a two dimensional chiral algebra built out of gauged β-γ systems with SO(8) flavor. We test the duality by matching two-point correlators of soft gluon currents with two-point gluon amplitudes, and their leading operator product expansion coefficients with collinear limits of three-point gluon amplitudes.