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We study the formulation of massless higher-spin gravity on AdS$_3$ in a gauge in which the fundamental variables satisfy free field Poisson brackets. This gauge choice leaves a small portion of the gauge freedom unfixed, which should be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Andrea Campoleoni , Stefan Fredenhagen , Joris Raeymaekers

We study the holographic dual of a topological symmetry operator in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Symmetry operators arise from topological field theories localized on a subspace of the boundary CFT spacetime. We use bottom up…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-23 Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Chitraang Murdia

A long-standing and intriguing question is: does the holographic principle apply to cosmologies like de Sitter spacetime? In this work, we consider a half dS spacetime wherein a timelike boundary encloses the bulk spacetime, presenting a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-18 Taishi Kawamoto , Shan-Ming Ruan , Yu-ki Suzuki , Tadashi Takayanagi

In this article, an introduction to the nonlinear equations for completely symmetric bosonic higher spin gauge fields in anti de Sitter space of any dimension is provided. To make the presentation self-contained we explain in detail some…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-15 X. Bekaert , S. Cnockaert , C. Iazeolla , M. A. Vasiliev

We discuss a non-dynamical theory of gravity in three-dimensions which is based on an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra that is closely related to an infinite-dimensional extended AdS algebra. We find an intriguing connection between on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-07 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Mehmet Ozkan , Mustafa Salih Zog

A generalized set of asymptotic conditions for higher spin gravity without cosmological constant in three spacetime dimensions is constructed. They include the most general temporal components of the gauge fields that manifestly preserve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Javier Matulich , Alfredo Perez , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

A contribution to the collection of reviews "Introduction to Higher Spin Theory" edited by S. Fredenhagen, this introductory article is a pedagogical account of higher-spin fields and their connections with String Theory. We start with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-19 Rakibur Rahman , Massimo Taronna

We determine complex saddles of three-dimensional gravity with a positive cosmological constant by applying the recently proposed holography. It is sometimes useful to consider a complexified metric to study quantum gravity as in the case…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Heng-Yu Chen , Yasuaki Hikida , Yusuke Taki , Takahiro Uetoko

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 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

These notes aim at providing a pedagogical and pedestrian introduction to the subject and assume no previous knowledge apart from that of general relativity. We shall first recall the "frame" formulation of the later theory, then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-09 Gustavo Lucena Gómez

Chiral Higher Spin Gravity with cosmological constant is constructed as a Free Differential Algebra, i.e. at the level of equations of motion, which is a smooth deformation of its flat space cousin arXiv:2205.07794. Chiral Higher Spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 Alexey Sharapov , Evgeny Skvortsov

We discuss general properties of the theory of higher spin gauge fields in $AdS_4$ focusing on the relationship between the star-product origin of the higher spin symmetries, AdS geometry and the concept of space-time locality. A full list…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Vasiliev

We investigate anisotropic conformal Carroll field theories and their holographic duals. On the field theory side, we focus on the case with scaling exponent $z=0$ in two and three spacetime dimensions. These theories exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Emilie Despontin , Stephane Detournay , Sudipta Dutta , Dima Fontaine

In this paper we propose a holographic duality for classical gravity on a three-dimensional de Sitter space. We first show that a pair of SU$(2)$ Chern-Simons gauge theories reproduces the classical partition function of Einstein gravity on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-27 Yasuaki Hikida , Tatsuma Nishioka , Tadashi Takayanagi , Yusuke Taki

One of the key issues in holography is going beyond $\mathrm{AdS}$ and defining quantum gravity in spacetimes with a null boundary. Recent examples of this type involve linear dilaton asymptotics and are related to the $T \overline{T}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Christian Ferko , Savdeep Sethi

Starting from the asymptotic kinematics of massless scalar fields near null infinity in any spacetime dimension, we build two higher-spin extensions of the Carrollian definition of the BMS group and its generalisations. The first extension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Xavier Bekaert , Blagoje Oblak

Recent progress in holographic correspondence uncovered remarkable relations between key characteristics of the theories on both sides of duality and certain integrable models. In this note we revisit the problem of the role of certain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 R. C. Rashkov

We analyse a simple example of a holographically dual pair in which we topologically twist both theories. The holography is based on the two-dimensional N=2 supersymmetric Liouville conformal field theory that defines a unitary bulk quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Songyuan Li , Jan Troost

General aspects of higher-spin gauge theory and unfolded formulation are briefly recalled with some emphasize on the recent results on the breaking of $sp(8)$ symmetry by current interactions and construction of invariant functionals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 M. A. Vasiliev