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Chiral Higher Spin Gravity and Convex Geometry

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-06-21 v2 Quantum Algebra

Abstract

Chiral Higher Spin Gravity is the minimal extension of the graviton with propagating massless higher spin fields. It admits any value of the cosmological constant, including zero. Its existence implies that Chern-Simons vector models have closed subsectors and supports the 3d3d bosonization duality. In this letter, we explicitly construct an AA_\infty-algebra that determines all interaction vertices of the theory. The algebra turns out to be of pre-Calabi-Yau type. The corresponding products, some of which originate from Shoikhet-Tsygan-Kontsevich formality, are given by integrals over the configuration space of convex polygons.

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@article{arxiv.2209.01796,
  title  = {Chiral Higher Spin Gravity and Convex Geometry},
  author = {Alexey Sharapov and Evgeny Skvortsov and Richard Van Dongen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.01796},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

9 pages, several figures, minor changes

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