The heat kernel on AdS₃ and its applications

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DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2010)125zbMATH Open1272.83081arXiv0911.5085OpenAlexW3125804831MaRDI QIDQ367664FDOQ367664

Matthias R. Gaberdiel, Justin R. David, Rajesh Gopakumar

Publication date: 16 September 2013

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

Abstract: We derive the heat kernel for arbitrary tensor fields on S^3 and (Euclidean) AdS_3 using a group theoretic approach. We use these results to also obtain the heat kernel on certain quotients of these spaces. In particular, we give a simple, explicit expression for the one loop determinant for a field of arbitrary spin s in thermal AdS_3. We apply this to the calculation of the one loop partition function of N=1 supergravity on AdS_3. We find that the answer factorizes into left- and right-moving super Virasoro characters built on the SL(2, C) invariant vacuum, as argued by Maloney and Witten on general grounds.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.5085





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