No chiral truncation of quantum log gravity?

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2010)029zbMATH Open1271.83030arXiv0909.0727OpenAlexW1977084752WikidataQ59254807 ScholiaQ59254807MaRDI QIDQ365045FDOQ365045

Authors: Tomás Andrade, Donald Marolf 

Publication date: 3 September 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: At the classical level, chiral gravity may be constructed as a consistent truncation of a larger theory called log gravity by requiring that left-moving charges vanish. In turn, log gravity is the limit of topologically massive gravity (TMG) at a special value of the coupling (the chiral point). We study the situation at the level of linearized quantum fields, focussing on a unitary quantization. While the TMG Hilbert space is continuous at the chiral point, the left-moving Virasoro generators become ill-defined and cannot be used to define a chiral truncation. In a sense, the left-moving asymptotic symmetries are spontaneously broken at the chiral point. In contrast, in a non-unitary quantization of TMG, both the Hilbert space and charges are continuous at the chiral point and define a unitary theory of chiral gravity at the linearized level.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0727

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zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravityAdS-CFT correspondencemodels of quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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