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Symmetries and Charges in Weyl-Fefferman-Graham Gauge

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-12-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional AdS Einstein gravity in the Weyl-Fefferman-Graham gauge, which is a generalization of the Fefferman-Graham gauge inducing a Weyl connection as part of the boundary structure. We show that this gauge arises as a natural intermediary step of the gauge-fixing procedure in the Chern-Simons formulation. We prove that the diffeomorphism required to go to the usual Fefferman-Graham gauge can be charged, and thus its implementation has physical repercussions. We discuss the holographic renormalization and the variational principle offering a new holographic take on this gauge and its charges.

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@article{arxiv.2308.15480,
  title  = {Symmetries and Charges in Weyl-Fefferman-Graham Gauge},
  author = {Luca Ciambelli and Arnaud Delfante and Romain Ruzziconi and Céline Zwikel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.15480},
  year   = {2023}
}

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33 pages, minor corrections, published version