On the boundary dynamics of Chern-Simons gravity

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2003/01/067zbMATH Open1225.81108arXivhep-th/0210089OpenAlexW1990035681MaRDI QIDQ644393FDOQ644393

Authors: Giovanni Arcioni, Matthias Blau, Martin O'Loughlin 

Publication date: 4 November 2011

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

Abstract: We study Chern-Simons theory with a complex G_C or a real G x G gauge group on a manifold with boundary - this includes Lorentzian and Euclidean (anti-) de Sitter (E/A)dS gravity for G=SU(2) or G=SL(2,R). We show that there is a canonical choice of boundary conditions that leads to an unambiguous, fully covariant and gauge invariant, off-shell derivation of the boundary action - a G_C/G or G WZW model, coupled in a gauge invariant way to the boundary value of the gauge field. In particular, for (E/A)dS gravity, the boundary action is a WZW model with target space (E/A)dS_3, reminiscent of a worldsheet for worldsheet mechanism. We discuss in some detail the properties of the boundary theories that arise and we confront our results with various related constructions in the literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0210089

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) General relativity (83C99)

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