Free field world-sheet correlators for AdS3

Abstract

We employ the free field realisation of the psu(1 1 |2) 1 world-sheet theory to constrain the correlators of string theory on AdS3× S3×T4 with unit NS-NS flux. In particular, we directly obtain the unusual delta function localisation of these correlators onto branched covers of the boundary S2 by the (genus zero) world-sheet — this is the key property which makes the equivalence to the dual symmetric orbifold manifest. In our approach, this feature follows from a remarkable ‘incidence relation’ obeyed by the correlators, which is reminiscent of a twistorial string description. We also illustrate our results with explicit computations in various special cases.