Holographic Chern-Simons Theories
Abstract
Chern-Simons theories in three dimensions are topological field theories that may have a holographic interpretation for suitable chosen gauge groups and boundary conditions on the fields. Conformal Chern-Simons gravity is a topological model of 3-dimensional gravity that exhibits Weyl invariance and allows various holographic descriptions, including Anti-de Sitter, Lobachevsky and flat space holography. The same model also allows to address some aspects that arise in higher spin gravity in a considerably simplified setup, since both types of models have gauge symmetries other than diffeomorphisms. In these lectures we summarize briefly recent results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1404.1919,
title = {Holographic Chern-Simons Theories},
author = {H. Afshar and A. Bagchi and S. Detournay and D. Grumiller and S. Prohazka and M. Riegler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.1919},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 pp, invited lectures prepared for the 7th Aegean Summer School "Beyond Einstein's Theory of Gravity", 2013