Exact Path Integral for 3D Higher Spin Gravity
Abstract
Extending the works arXiv:1504.05991 and arXiv:1510.02142, we study three dimensional Euclidean higher spin gravity with negative cosmological constant. This theory can be formulated in terms of SL(N,C) Chern-Simons theory. By introducing auxiliary fields, we rewrite it in a supersymmetric way and compute its partition function exactly by using the localization method. We obtain a good expression for the partition function in terms of characters for the vacuum and primaries in 2D unitary CFT with W_N symmetry. We also check that the coefficients of the character expansion are positive integers and exhibit Cardy formula in the large central charge limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1511.07546,
title = {Exact Path Integral for 3D Higher Spin Gravity},
author = {Masazumi Honda and Norihiro Iizuka and Akinori Tanaka and Seiji Terashima},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07546},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
8 pages, 1 figure. v2: discussion on introducing higher-spin-charge chemical potential added