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Lifshitz black holes in higher spin gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v2

Abstract

We study asymptotically Lifshitz solutions to three dimensional higher spin gravity in the SL(3,R)xSL(3,R) Chern-Simons formulation. We begin by specifying the most general connections satisfying Lifshitz boundary conditions, and we verify that their algebra of symmetries contains a Lifshitz sub-algebra. We then exhibit connections that can be viewed as higher spin Lifshitz black holes. We show that when suitable holonomy conditions are imposed, these black holes obey sensible thermodynamics and possess a gauge in which the corresponding metric exhibits a regular horizon.

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@article{arxiv.1310.0837,
  title  = {Lifshitz black holes in higher spin gravity},
  author = {Michael Gutperle and Eliot Hijano and Joshua Samani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.0837},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

34 pages, LaTeX, 10 figures, v2: minor edits, 2 new references

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