Flat/AdS boundary conditions in three dimensional conformal gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2013)027zbMATH Open1342.83042arXiv1307.4855MaRDI QIDQ737683FDOQ737683

Authors: Hamid R. Afshar 

Publication date: 12 August 2016

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

Abstract: We present the asymptotic analysis of 3D conformal gravity as a SO(3,2) Chern-Simons gauge theory with Minkowskian (flat) and AdS boundary conditions. We further extend these boundary conditions to the case where the Weyl mode and the partial massless mode are allowed to fluctuate. The latter leads to loosing one copy of the Virasoro algebra and the former to a u(1) current extension of the asymptotic symmetry algebra and shifting the Virasoro central charge by one. We also give a pedagogical canonical and asymptotic analysis of 3D pure gravity as an ISO(2,1) Chern-Simons gauge theory with flat boundary conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.4855

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge-gravity correspondenceChern-Simons theoriesgauge symmetrytopological field theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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