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Higher Spin Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-27 v5

Abstract

We study classical solutions of three dimensional higher spin gravity in the Chern-Simons formulation. We find solutions that generalize the BTZ black hole and carry spin-3 charge. The black hole entropy formula yields a result for the asymptotic growth of the partition function at finite spin-3 chemical potential. Along the way, we develop technology for computing AdS/CFT correlation functions involving higher spin operators.

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@article{arxiv.1103.4304,
  title  = {Higher Spin Black Holes},
  author = {Michael Gutperle and Per Kraus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.4304},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

28 pages, harvmac, no figures v4: corrected statement about asymptotic boundary behavior, new appendix with example of obtaining black hole thermodynamics from integrability v5: sign in eq 4.7 and 4.9 corrected

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