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Weyl Charges in Asymptotically Locally AdS$_3$ Spacetimes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We discuss an enhancement of the Brown-Henneaux boundary conditions in three-dimensional AdS General Relativity to encompass Weyl transformations of the boundary metric. The resulting asymptotic symmetry algebra, after a field-dependent redefinition of the generators, is a direct sum of two copies of the Witt algebra and the Weyl abelian sector. The charges associated to Weyl transformations are non-vanishing, integrable but not conserved due to a flux driven by the Weyl anomaly coefficient. The charge algebra admits an additional non-trivial central extension in the Weyl sector, related to the well-known Weyl anomaly. We then construct the holographic Weyl current and show that it satisfies an anomalous Ward-Takahashi identity of the boundary theory.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15452,
  title  = {Weyl Charges in Asymptotically Locally AdS$_3$ Spacetimes},
  author = {Francesco Alessio and Glenn Barnich and Luca Ciambelli and Pujian Mao and Romain Ruzziconi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15452},
  year   = {2021}
}

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29 pages, Latex, V2, Minor Revisions