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Non-AdS holography in 3-dimensional higher spin gravity - General recipe and example

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-06-18 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present the general algorithm to establish the classical and quantum asymptotic symmetry algebra for non-AdS higher spin gravity and implement it for the specific example of spin-3 gravity in the non-principal embedding with Lobachevsky (H^2xR) boundary conditions. The asymptotic symmetry algebra for this example consists of a quantum W_3^2 (Polyakov-Bershadsky) and an affine u(1) algebra. We show that unitary representations of the quantum W_3^2 algebra exist only for two values of its central charge, the trivial c=0 "theory" and the simple c=1 theory.

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@article{arxiv.1209.2860,
  title  = {Non-AdS holography in 3-dimensional higher spin gravity - General recipe and example},
  author = {H. Afshar and M. Gary and D. Grumiller and R. Rashkov and M. Riegler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.2860},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

23pp, v2: added Ref. [25], corrected typo in (5.4c)

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