We study correlators of R-symmetry currents in the Coulomb branch of N = 4
supersymmetric gauge theory in the large-N limit, using the AdS/CFT corresp
ondence. In particular, we consider gauge fields in the presence of gravity
and scalar fields parameterizing the coset SL(6, R)/SO(6) in the context o
f five-dimensional gauged supergravity. From a ten-dimensional point of vie
w these backgrounds correspond to continuous D3-brane distributions. We fin
d the surprising result that all 2-point functions of gauge currents fall i
nto the same universality class, irrespectively of whether they correspond
to broken or unbroken symmetries. We show that the problem of finding the s
pectrum can be mapped into an equivalent Schrodinger problem for supersymme
tric quantum mechanics. The corresponding potential is the supersymmetric p
artner of the potential arising in studies of the spectrum for massless sca
lars and transverse graviton fluctuations in these backgrounds and the asso
ciated spectra are also identical. We discuss in detail two examples where
these computations can be done explicitly as in the conformal case.