Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2026/iii/paper-354/1/b/iii/solution

Under the AdS-CFT correspondence, each single-trace operator is represented by one bulk field. The leading two-point Witten diagram is a bulk propagator joining the two boundary insertions, equivalently two bulk-to-boundary legs contracted through the quadratic bulk action. The leading connected three-point diagram has one bulk cubic vertex integrated over AdS and three bulk-to-boundary propagators ending at . The bulk kinetic normalization fixes , while the cubic coupling fixes .
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