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Galilean Conformal Algebra in Two Dimensions and Cosmological Topologically Massive Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-03-28 v3

Abstract

We consider a realization of the Galilean conformal algebra (GCA) in two dimensional space-time on the AdS boundary of a particular three dimensional gravity theory, the so-called cosmological topologically massive gravity (CTMG), which includes the gravitational Chern-Simons term and the negative cosmological constant. The infinite dimensional GCA in two dimensions is obtained from the Virasoro algebra for the relativistic CFT by taking a scaling limit ttt\to t, xϵxx\to\epsilon x with ϵ0\epsilon\to 0. The parent relativistic CFT should have left and right central charges of order O(1/ϵ)\mathcal{O}(1/\epsilon) but opposite in sign in the limit ϵ0\epsilon\to 0. On the other hand, by Brown-Henneaux's analysis the Virasoro algebra is realized on the boundary of AdS3_3, but the left and right central charges are asymmetric only by the factor of the gravitational Chern-Simons coupling 1/μ1/\mu. If μ\mu behaves as of order O(ϵ)\mathcal{O}(\epsilon) under the corresponding limit, we have the GCA with non-trivial centers on AdS boundary of the bulk CTMG. Then we present a new entropy formula for the Galilean field theory from the bulk black hole entropy, which is a non-relativistic counterpart of the Cardy formula. It is also discussed whether it can be reproduced by the microstate counting.

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@article{arxiv.1003.1203,
  title  = {Galilean Conformal Algebra in Two Dimensions and Cosmological Topologically Massive Gravity},
  author = {Kyosuke Hotta and Takahiro Kubota and Takahiro Nishinaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.1203},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

15 pages, no figure; minor changes, a reference added, version to be published in Nucl. Phys. B