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Three-dimensional non-relativistic chiral massive higher-spin gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-11-27 v1

Abstract

We obtain a non-relativistic chiral massive higher-spin gravity in a deformed AdS3AdS_3 spacetime by applying a Lifshitz deformation and subsequent null reduction to chiral massless higher-spin gravity in AdS4AdS_4. Intriguingly, the vertices of this non-relativistic theory are less constrained than the ones of the original 4d4d chiral massless theory since we do not have enough dynamical generators to fix the couplings uniquely. Anticipating higher-spin interactions should be suppressed, we propose a simple approximate mass-spin relation which interpolates between the relativistic and non-relativistic regimes. With the proposed mass-spin relation, we observe that that higher-spin interactions indeed become suppressed at large spins, consistent with low-energy physics. We conjecture that the holographic dual of the non-relativistic chiral massive higher-spin gravity proposed in this work is a 2d2d non-relativistic Landau-Ginzburg theory in the light-cone gauge. This non-relativistic theory is expected to describe a two-fluid system with a λ\lambda-point constrained in one spatial dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2511.20818,
  title  = {Three-dimensional non-relativistic chiral massive higher-spin gravity},
  author = {Arpita Mitra and Debangshu Mukherjee and Tung Tran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.20818},
  year   = {2025}
}
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