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We revisit the spectrum of pure quantum gravity in AdS$_3$. The computation of the torus partition function will -- if computed using a gravitational path integral that includes only smooth saddle points -- lead to a density of states which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-03 Nathan Benjamin , Scott Collier , Alexander Maloney

We include a new 7-form ansatz in 11-dimensional supergravity over AdS_4 x S^7/Z_k when the internal space is considered as a U(1) bundle on CP^3. After a general analysis of the ansatz, we take a special form of it and obtain a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-02 M. Naghdi

Progress along the line of a previous article are reported. One main point is to include chiral operators with fractional quantum group spins (fourth or sixth of integers) which are needed to achieve modular invariance. We extend the study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Jean-Loup Gervais , Jean-Francois Roussel

We apply the conjecture of arXiv:2111.06903 for gravitational building blocks to the effective supergravity description of M-theory on S$^7/\mathbb{Z}_k$. Utilizing known localization results for the holographically dual ABJM theory, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Kiril Hristov

We propose that AdS$_3$ gravity with conformal boundary conditions is described by coupling the holographic CFT$_2$ to timelike Liouville theory and deforming by an exactly marginal operator. In this description, the Liouville field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 Kuroush Allameh , Edgar Shaghoulian

In this work, first, we discuss the connections between various low-dimensional quantum gravity models, including 3d Chern-Simons, 2d JT, 2d BF theory, 2d Liouville, 2d WZW, and 1d Schwarzian, which are related through holography and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Mahdis Ghodrati

We investigate the Poincar\'e approach to computing 3d gravity partition functions dual to Rational CFT. For a single genus-1 boundary, we show that for certain infinite sets of levels, the SU(2)$_k$ WZW models provide unitary examples for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-12 Viraj Meruliya , Sunil Mukhi , Palash Singh

Exponential regularization of orthogonal and Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space is presented based on noncommutative geometry. We show that an adequately adopted noncommutative deformation of geometry makes the holography of higher dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Zhe Chang

We consider massless higher-order gravities in general $D=d+1$ dimensions, which are Einstein gravity extended with higher-order curvature invariants in such a way that the linearized spectrum around the AdS vacua involves only the massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-20 Yue-Zhou Li , H. Lu , Zhan-Feng Mai

We provide strong evidence that all tree-level 4-point holographic correlators in AdS$_3 \times S^3$ are constrained by a hidden 6D conformal symmetry. This property has been discovered in the AdS$_5 \times S^5$ context and noticed in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Stefano Giusto , Rodolfo Russo , Alexander Tyukov , Congkao Wen

Holographic CFTs admit a dual emergent description in terms of semiclassical general relativity minimally coupled to matter fields. While the gravitational interactions are required to be suppressed by the Planck scale, the matter sector is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-03 Luis Apolo , Alexandre Belin , Suzanne Bintanja

The bulk partition function of pure Chern-Simons theory on a three-manifold is a state in the space of conformal blocks of the dual boundary RCFT, and therefore transforms non-trivially under the boundary modular group. In contrast the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Sergei Gukov , Emil Martinec , Gregory Moore , Andrew Strominger

We discuss the quantization and holographic aspects of a class of conical spaces in 2+1 dimensional pure AdS gravity. These appear as topological solitons in the Chern-Simons formulation of the theory and are closely related to the recently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Joris Raeymaekers

In this paper, we consider the Euclidean partition function of uncharged and charged $AdS_{d+1}$ black hole geometries in canonical and grand canonical ensemble for $d\geq3$. It is seen that the partition function can be reduced to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 Manishankar Ailiga , Shubhashis Mallik , Gaurav Narain

We study quantum gravity on $dS_{3}$ using the Chern-Simons formulation of three -dimensional gravity. We derive an exact expression for the partition function for quantum gravity on $dS_{3}$ in a Euclidean path integral approach. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 T. R. Govindarajan , R. K. Kaul , V. Suneeta

We present the general algorithm to establish the classical and quantum asymptotic symmetry algebra for non-AdS higher spin gravity and implement it for the specific example of spin-3 gravity in the non-principal embedding with Lobachevsky…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-18 H. Afshar , M. Gary , D. Grumiller , R. Rashkov , M. Riegler

We discuss the holographic correspondence between 3d "Chern-Simons gravity" and an ensemble of 2d Narain code CFTs. Starting from 3d abelian Chern-Simons theory, we construct an ensemble of boundary CFTs defined by gauging all possible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Anatoly Dymarsky , Johan Henriksson , Brian McPeak

We study several aspects of holographic entanglement in two models known as flat$_3$/BMSFT and (W)AdS$_3$/WCFT. These are two examples of holography beyond AdS/CFT where the the boundary field theories are not Lorentz invariant but still…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-10 Luis Apolo , Hongliang Jiang , Wei Song , Yuan Zhong

We consider bulk quantum fields in AdS/CFT in the background of an eternal black hole. We show that for black holes with finite entropy, correlation functions of semiclassical bulk operators close to the horizon deviate from their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Daniel Kabat , Gilad Lifschytz

We show that the linearization of all exact solutions of classical chiral gravity around the AdS3 vacuum have positive energy. Non-chiral and negative-energy solutions of the linearized equations are infrared divergent at second order, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Alexander Maloney , Wei Song , Andrew Strominger