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Towards metric-like higher-spin gauge theories in three dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-09-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider the coupling of a symmetric spin-3 gauge field to three-dimensional gravity in a second order metric-like formulation. The action that corresponds to an SL(3,R) x SL(3,R) Chern-Simons theory in the frame-like formulation is identified to quadratic order in the spin-3 field. We apply our result to compute corrections to the area law for higher-spin black holes using Wald's entropy formula.

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@article{arxiv.1208.1851,
  title  = {Towards metric-like higher-spin gauge theories in three dimensions},
  author = {Andrea Campoleoni and Stefan Fredenhagen and Stefan Pfenninger and Stefan Theisen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.1851},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

29 pages; v2: typos corrected