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Chiral Higher Spin Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-06-14 v2

Abstract

We construct a candidate for the most general chiral higher spin theory with AdS3_3 boundary conditions. In the Chern-Simons language, on the left it has the Drinfeld-Sokolov reduced form, but on the right all charges and chemical potentials are turned on. Altogether (for the spin-3 case) these are 1919 functions. Despite this, we show that the resulting metric has the form of the "most general" AdS3_3 boundary conditions discussed by Grumiller and Riegler. The asymptotic symmetry algebra is a product of a W3\mathcal{W}_3 algebra on the left and an affine sl(3)ksl(3)_k current algebra on the right, as desired. The metric and higher spin fields depend on all the 1919 functions. We compare our work with previous results in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.1703.01769,
  title  = {Chiral Higher Spin Gravity},
  author = {Chethan Krishnan and Avinash Raju},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01769},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

v2: refs added, minor corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-22T18:36:38.310Z