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We consider a free complex massive scalar on the quotient spacetime AdS$_3/\mathbb{Z}$, which has the isometry group SO(2,2) rather than its universal cover. This problem is of interest as a special example of QFT on a spacetime with closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-20 Walker Melton , Andrew Strominger , Tianli Wang

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

One proposal for dS/CFT is that the Hartle-Hawking (HH) wave function in the large volume limit is equal to the partition function of a Euclidean CFT deformed by various operators. All saddle points defining the semiclassical HH wave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-22 Thomas Hertog , Ellen van der Woerd

The set of solutions to the AdS$_3$ Einstein gravity with Brown-Henneaux boundary conditions is known to be a family of metrics labeled by two arbitrary periodic functions, respectively left and right-moving. It turns out that there exists…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 G. Compère , P. Mao , A. Seraj , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

We show that there is a dual description of conformal blocks of $d=2$ rational CFT in terms of Hecke eigenfields and eigensheaves. In particular, partition functions, conformal characters and lattice theta functions may be reconstructed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-24 Igor Yu. Potemine

Three-dimensional topologically massive AdS gravity has a complicated constraint algebra, making it difficult to count nonperturbative degrees of freedom. I show that a new choice of variables greatly simplifies this algebra, and confirm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

We present a Lorentzian version of three-dimensional noncommutative Einstein-AdS gravity by making use of the Chern-Simons formulation of pure gravity in 2+1 dimensions. The deformed action contains a real, symmetric metric and a real,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Cacciatori , D. Klemm , L. Martucci , D. Zanon

We compute the contribution of the vacuum Virasoro representation to the genus-two partition function of an arbitrary CFT with central charge $c>1$. This is the perturbative pure gravity partition function in three dimensions. We employ a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-19 Matthew Headrick , Alexander Maloney , Eric Perlmutter , Ida G. Zadeh

We discuss a fine-tuning of rather generic three dimensional higher-curvature gravity actions that leads to gauge symmetry enhancement at the linearized level via partial masslessness. Requiring this gauge symmetry to be present also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-27 Hamid Afshar , Branislav Cvetković , Sabine Ertl , Daniel Grumiller , Niklas Johansson

In the AdS/CFT correspondence, a topological symmetry operator of the boundary CFT is dual to a dynamical brane in the gravitational bulk. Said differently, this predicts a dynamical brane for every global symmetry of the boundary CFT. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-02 Mirjam Cvetič , Jonathan J. Heckman , Max Hübner , Chitraang Murdia

Chiral gravity is three-dimensional asymptotically AdS3 gravity with an Einstein, cosmological, and Chern-Simons term at a critical value of the coupling denoted \mu\ell=1. Ordinarily, excitations of AdS3 gravity are known to transform…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-08-06 Andrew Strominger

We extend the recently proposal of hidden conformal symmetry to the self-dual warped AdS$_3$ black holes in topological massive gravity. It is shown that the wave equation of massive scalar field with sufficient small angular momentum can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-04 Ran Li , Ming-Fan Li , Ji-Rong Ren

A generally covariant gauge theory for an arbitrary gauge group with dimension $\geq 3$, that reduces to Ashtekar's canonical formulation of gravity for SO(3,C), is presented. The canonical form of the theory is shown to contain only first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-01-06 Peter Peldan

We uncover a direct connection between three-dimensional gravity with chiral boundary conditions and a class of forced integrable systems. Starting from the Chern-Simons formulation, we derive consistent boundary conditions on a non-compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Hamed Adami , Anouchah Latifi

This paper investigates the holographic realization of anyons in \(SU(N)_k\) Chern-Simons theory within the AdS/CFT framework. The study extends traditional models, such as \(SU(2)\), to higher-rank groups like \(SU(3)\) and \(SU(4)\),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-23 Tzu-Miao Chou

Pure 3d gravity in AdS is believed to admit a holographic description in terms of 2d CFT. We introduce a theory of fermionic 3d gravity where we sum over geometries equipped with spin structure, and propose it is holographically described…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-16 Jan Boruch , Elisa Tabor , Gustavo J. Turiaci

We continue our study of string correlators on Euclidean $\text{AdS}_3$ with pure NS-NS flux. The worldsheet and spacetime correlators have a rich analytic structure, which we analyse completely for genus 0 four-point functions. We show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Andrea Dei , Lorenz Eberhardt

By using the approach introduced in arXiv:2107.09677 we construct non-BPS solutions of 6D $(1,0)$ supergravity coupled to two tensor multiplets as a perturbation of AdS$_3\times S^3$. These solutions are both regular and asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-15 Bogdan Ganchev , Stefano Giusto , Anthony Houppe , Rodolfo Russo

Large N quasi-fermionic Chern-Simons-matter theories have an approximate higher-spin symmetry that strongly constrains their correlation functions. In particular, the 3-point functions for generic spins are combinations of 3 structures…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-06 Ofer Aharony , Rohit R. Kalloor , Trivko Kukolj

We compute bulk 3- and 4-point tachyon correlators in the 2d Liouville gravity with non-rational matter central charge c<1, following and comparing two approaches. The continuous CFT approach exploits the action on the tachyons of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 I. K. Kostov , V. B. Petkova