Some aspects of holographic W-gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2016-06-22 v1
Abstract
We use the Chern-Simons formulation of higher spin theories in three dimensions to study aspects of holographic W-gravity. Concepts which were useful in studies of pure bulk gravity theories, such as the Fefferman-Graham gauge and the residual gauge transformations, which induce Weyl transformations in the boundary theory and their higher spin generalizations, are reformulated in the Chern-Simons language. Flat connections that correspond to conformal and lightcone gauges in the boundary theory are considered.
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@article{arxiv.1504.07799,
title = {Some aspects of holographic W-gravity},
author = {Wei Li and Stefan Theisen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.07799},
year = {2016}
}
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42 pages