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BTZ black hole is interpreted as exact solution of 3d higher spin gauge theory. Solutions for free massless fields in BTZ black hole background are constructed with the help of the star-product algebra formalism underlying the formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. E. Didenko , A. S. Matveev , M. A. Vasiliev

We compute three-point correlation functions in the near-extremal, near-horizon region of a Kerr black hole, and compare to the corresponding finite-temperature conformal field theory correlators. For simplicity, we focus on scalar fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Melanie Becker , Sera Cremonini , Waldemar Schulgin

We study the spectrum of scalar primary operators in any two-dimensional conformal field theory. We show that the scalars alone obey a nontrivial crossing equation. This extends previous work that derived a similar equation for Narain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 Nathan Benjamin , Cyuan-Han Chang , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Tobi Ramella

We present the details of a recently discovered representation of conformal four-point ladder integrals as thermal one-point functions in scalar field theories. We show that the conformal ladder integrals can be constructed from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-17 Manthos Karydas , Songyuan Li , Anastasios C. Petkou , Matthieu Vilatte

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

Higher spin gravity is an interesting toy model of stringy geometry. Particularly intriguing is the presence of higher spin gauge transformations that redefine notions of invariance in gravity: the existence of event horizons and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Martin Ammon , Michael Gutperle , Per Kraus , Eric Perlmutter

We calculate holographically one and two-point functions of scalar operators at finite density and/or finite temperature. In the case of finite density and zero temperature we argue that only scalar operators can have non-zero VEVs. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 George Georgiou , Dimitrios Zoakos

We prove using invariance under the modular $S$- and $ST$-transformations that every unitary two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) of only even-spin operators (with no extended chiral algebra and with central charges $c,\tilde{c}>1$)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-28 Joshua D. Qualls

We find the explicit form of two-point function for the conformal spin-2 energy momentum operators on the near horizon of a near extremal Kerr black hole by variation of a proper boundary action. In this regard, we consider an appropriate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-10 A. M. Ghezelbash

If there exist higher-spin particles during inflation which are light compared to the Hubble rate, they may leave distinct statistical anisotropic imprints on the correlators involving scalar and graviton fluctuations. We characterise such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-15 Gabriele Franciolini , Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

We evaluate one-loop partition functions of higher-spin fields in thermal flat space with angular potentials; this computation is performed in arbitrary space-time dimension, and the result is a simple combination of Poincar\'e characters.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-04 Andrea Campoleoni , Hernan A. Gonzalez , Blagoje Oblak , Max Riegler

The Kerr/CFT correspondence provides a holographic description of spinning black holes that exist in our universe, and the notion of hidden conformal symmetry allows for a formulation of this correspondence away from extremality. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-30 Valentina Giangreco M. Puletti , Victoria L. Martin

We provide mass/energy formulas for the extended thermodynamics, mixed thermodynamics, and holographic conformal field theory (CFT) thermodynamics for the charged and rotating Kerr-Newman Anti-de Sitter black holes. Then for the CFT thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Ting-Feng Gong , Jie Jiang , Ming Zhang

In anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, classical supergravity solutions are represented "holographically" by conformal field theory (CFT) states in which operators have expectation values. These 1-point functions are directly related to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Vijay Balasubramanian , Simon F. Ross

Two-dimensional conformal field theories with extended $\cal{W}$-symmetry algebras have dual descriptions in terms of weakly coupled higher spin gravity in AdS$_3\,$ at large central charge. Observables that can be computed and compared in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-09 Jan de Boer , Alejandra Castro , Eliot Hijano , Juan I. Jottar , Per Kraus

We extend recent results on semi-classical conformal blocks in 2d CFT and their relation to 3D gravity via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We consider four-point functions with two heavy and two light external operators, along with the exchange…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-27 Eliot Hijano , Per Kraus , River Snively

We study the correlators of the 2d W_N minimal model in the semiclassical regime with large central charge from bulk viewpoint by utilizing open Wilson lines in sl(N) Chern-Simons gauge theory. We extend previous works for the tree level of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-01 Yasuaki Hikida , Takahiro Uetoko

We consider the holographic duality between 4d type-A higher-spin gravity and a 3d free vector model. It is known that the Feynman diagrams for boundary correlators can be encapsulated in an HS-algebraic twistorial expression. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-09 Adrian David , Yasha Neiman

We discuss several aspects of the proposed correspondence between quantum gravity on de Sitter spaces and Euclidean conformal field theories. The central charge appearing in the asymptotic symmetry algebra of three-dimensional de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Dietmar Klemm

Quantum higher-spin theory applied to Compton amplitudes has proven to be surprisingly useful for elucidating Kerr black hole dynamics. Here we apply the framework to compute scattering amplitudes and observables for a binary system of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-27 Lara Bohnenblust , Lucile Cangemi , Henrik Johansson , Paolo Pichini