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Most general AdS_3 boundary conditions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-09-22 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider the most general asymptotically anti-de Sitter boundary conditions in three-dimensional Einstein gravity with negative cosmological constant. The metric contains in total twelve independent functions, six of which are interpreted as chemical potentials (or non-normalizable fluctuations) and the other half as canonical boundary charges (or normalizable fluctuations). Their presence modifies the usual Fefferman-Graham expansion. The asymptotic symmetry algebra consists of two sl(2)_k current algebras, the levels of which are given by k=l/(4G_N), where l is the AdS radius and G_N the three-dimensional Newton constant.

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@article{arxiv.1608.01308,
  title  = {Most general AdS_3 boundary conditions},
  author = {Daniel Grumiller and Max Riegler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.01308},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

22 pp, v2: added refs. and subsection 4.4, v3: added two footnotes, v4: corrected minor misprints

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