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Flat-Space Chiral Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-10-12 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We provide the first evidence for a holographic correspondence between a gravitational theory in flat space and a specific unitary field theory in one dimension lower. The gravitational theory is a flat-space limit of topologically massive gravity in three dimensions at Chern-Simons level k=1. The field theory is a chiral two-dimensional conformal field theory with central charge c=24.

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@article{arxiv.1208.1658,
  title  = {Flat-Space Chiral Gravity},
  author = {Arjun Bagchi and Stephane Detournay and Daniel Grumiller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1658},
  year   = {2012}
}

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