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Anti-de Sitter holography for gravity and higher spin theories in two dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-02-12 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We provide a holographic description of two-dimensional dilaton gravity with Anti-de Sitter boundary conditions. We find that the asymptotic symmetry algebra consists of a single copy of the Virasoro algebra with non-vanishing central charge and point out difficulties with the standard canonical treatment. We generalize our results to higher spin theories and thus provide the first examples of two-dimensional higher spin gravity with holographic description. For spin-3 gravity we find that the asymptotic symmetry algebra is a single copy of the W_3-algebra.

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@article{arxiv.1311.7413,
  title  = {Anti-de Sitter holography for gravity and higher spin theories in two dimensions},
  author = {Daniel Grumiller and Mauricio Leston and Dmitri Vassilevich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.7413},
  year   = {2014}
}

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8pp, v2: added footnotes and references