Boundary dynamics of asymptotically flat 3D gravity coupled to higher spin fields
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We construct a two-dimensional action principle invariant under a spin-three extension of BMS group. Such a theory is obtained through a reduction of Chern-Simons action with a boundary. This procedure is carried out by imposing a set of boundary conditions obtained from asymptotically flat spacetimes in three dimensions. When implementing part of this set, we obtain an analog of chiral WZW model based on a contraction of . The remaining part of the boundary conditions imposes constraints on the conserved currents of the model, which allows to further reduce the action principle. It is shown that a sector of this latter theory is related to a flat limit of Toda theory.
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@article{arxiv.1403.4898,
title = {Boundary dynamics of asymptotically flat 3D gravity coupled to higher spin fields},
author = {Hernan A. Gonzalez and Miguel Pino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.4898},
year = {2015}
}
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