Higher spin theories in AdS₃ and a gravitational exclusion principle

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2011)142zbMATH Open1214.83008arXiv1012.0598OpenAlexW2128136642MaRDI QIDQ544293FDOQ544293

Authors: Alejandra Castro, Arnaud Lepage-Jutier, Alexander Maloney 

Publication date: 14 June 2011

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

Abstract: We consider theories of three dimensional quantum gravity in Anti-de Sitter space which possess massless higher-spin gauge symmetry. The perturbative spectrum of the theory includes higher spin excitations which can be organized into vacuum representations of the W_N algebra; these are higher spin versions of the boundary gravitons. We describe a fundamental bound which relates the value of the cosmological constant to the amount of gauge symmetry present. In the dual CFT language, this is the statement that modular invariance implies that the theory can not be quantized unless the central charge is sufficiently large, i.e. if c is greater than or equal to N-1. This bound relies on the assumption that all of the perturbative excitations exist as full states in the quantum theory, and can be circumvented if the theory possesses a linearization instability. The W_N minimal models -- recently conjectured to be dual to certain higher spin AdS theories by Gaberdiel and Gopakumar - provide an example of this phenomenon. This result can be regarded as an example of a "gravitational exclusion principle" in Anti-de Sitter space, where a non-perturbative quantum gravity mechanism involving black holes places a limit on the number of light degrees of freedom present.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0598

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zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondenceChern-Simons theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Nonperturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T16) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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