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We obtain a non-relativistic chiral massive higher-spin gravity in a deformed $AdS_3$ spacetime by applying a Lifshitz deformation and subsequent null reduction to chiral massless higher-spin gravity in $AdS_4$. Intriguingly, the vertices…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-27 Arpita Mitra , Debangshu Mukherjee , Tung Tran

Chern-Simons AdS supergravity theories are gauge theories for the super-AdS group. These theories possess a fermionic symmetry which differs from standard supersymmetry. In this paper, we study five-dimensional Chern-Simons AdS supergravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard S. Garavuso , Francesco Toppan

This paper is mainly a review of the dualities between Vasiliev's higher spin gauge theories in AdS4 and three dimensional large N vector models, with focus on the holographic calculation of correlation functions of higher spin currents. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Simone Giombi , Xi Yin

The CP^N Kazama-Suzuki models with the non-linear chiral algebra SW_infinity[lambda] have been conjectured to be dual to the fully supersymmetric Prokushkin-Vasiliev theory of higher-spin gauge fields coupled to two massive N=2 multiplets…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-19 Heidar Moradi , Konstantinos Zoubos

We aim at formulating a higher-spin gravity theory around AdS$_2$ relevant for holography. As a first step, we investigate its kinematics by identifying the low-dimensional cousins of the standard higher-dimensional structures in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-08 Konstantin Alkalaev , Xavier Bekaert

We introduce a novel reformulation of three-dimensional gravity in terms of divergenceless vector frames, inspired by the double copy for Chern-Simons theory. This formulation is on-shell equivalent to conventional 3D gravity and provides a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Maor Ben-Shahar , Francesco Bonechi , Maxim Zabzine

We consider theories of three dimensional quantum gravity in Anti-de Sitter space which possess massless higher-spin gauge symmetry. The perturbative spectrum of the theory includes higher spin excitations which can be organized into vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-05 Alejandra Castro , Arnaud Lepage-Jutier , Alexander Maloney

A class of $AdS_2\times \Sigma_2$, with $\Sigma_2$ being a two-sphere or a hyperbolic space, solutions within four-dimensional $N=4$ gauged supergravity coupled to three-vector multiplets with dyonic gauging is identified. The gauged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-24 Parinya Karndumri

In this paper we construct a map between a solution of supersymmetric Chern-Simons higher spin gravity based on the superalgebra $sl(3|2)$ with Lifshitz scaling and the $N=2$ super Boussinesq hierarchy. We show that under this map the time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Michael Gutperle , Yi Li

We explore self-dual Chern-Simons Higgs systems with the local $SU(3)$ and global $U(1)$ symmetries where the matter field lies in the adjoint representation. We show that there are three degenerate vacua of different symmetries and study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 Hsien-Chung Kao , Kimyeong Lee

The Chern-Simons formulation of $AdS_3$ supergravity is considered. Asymptotic conditions on the Rarita-Schwinger fields are given. Together with the known boundary conditions on the bosonic fields, these ensure that the asymptotic algebra…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Karin Bautier

Multi-parametric families of AdS$_{4}$ vacua with various amounts of supersymmetry and residual gauge symmetry are found in the $\,[\textrm{SO}(1,1) \times \textrm{SO}(6)] \ltimes \mathbb{R}^{12}\,$ maximal supergravity that arises from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Adolfo Guarino , Colin Sterckx , Mario Trigiante

Massless higher-spin fields show no preference for any value of the cosmological constant in $3d$. All matter-free higher-spin gravities in 3d are equivalent to Chern-Simons theories with an appropriate choice of gauge algebra. For various…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-20 Alexey Sharapov , Evgeny Skvortsov , Arseny Sukhanov

We study a symmetry-reduced sector of $AdS_3/\mathbb Z_2$ gravity formulated as an $SO(2,2)$ Chern--Simons theory on a 3D-manifold with toroidal boundary. The reduction is implemented by requiring a globally defined symmetry and restricting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Goffredo Chirco , Lucio Vacchiano , Patrizia Vitale

We study $N=5$ gauged supergravity in three dimensions with compact, non-compact and non-semisimple gauge groups. The theory under consideration is of Chern-Simons type with $USp(4,k)/USp(4)\times USp(k)$ scalar manifold. We classify…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-30 Auttakit Chatrabhuti , Parinya Karndumri , Boonpithak Ngamwatthanakul

We compute boundary three-point functions involving two scalars and a gauge field of arbitrary spin in the AdS vacuum of Vasiliev's higher spin gravity, for any deformation parameter \lambda. In the process, we develop tools for extracting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Martin Ammon , Per Kraus , Eric Perlmutter

The coupling of spin-3 gauge fields to three-dimensional Maxwell and $AdS$-Lorentz gravity theories is presented. After showing how the usual spin-3 extensions of the $AdS$ and the Poincar\'e algebras in three dimensions can be obtained as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-19 Ricardo Caroca , Patrick Concha , Octavio Fierro , Evelyn Rodríguez , Patricio Salgado-Rebolledo

We propose a duality between the 2d W_N minimal models in the large N 't Hooft limit, and a family of higher spin theories on AdS_3. The 2d CFTs can be described as WZW coset models, and include, for N=2, the usual Virasoro unitary series.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-09 Matthias R Gaberdiel , Rajesh Gopakumar

We construct two families of AdS$_2$ vacua in Type IIB Supergravity performing U(1) and SL(2) T-dualities on the $\text{AdS}_3 \times \text{$ \widehat{\mathbb{CP}}\!\!~^3$} \times $ I solutions to Type IIA recently reported in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-26 Andrea Conti

We study Vasiliev's system of higher spin gauge fields coupled to massive scalars in AdS_3, and compute the tree level two and three point functions. These are compared to the large N limit of the W_N minimal model, and nontrivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Chi-Ming Chang , Xi Yin