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Aspects of Higher Spin Theories, Conformal Field Theories and Holography

arXiv:1711.03300

Abstract

This dissertation consists of three parts. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the study of gravity and higher spin gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions. The first part deals with cosmological solutions of spin-3 gravity and their thermodynamics, flat space limit of AdS gravity and higher spins using Grassmann approach and chiral higher spin solutions with the most general AdS boundary condition. The second part is devoted to the problem of Neumann boundary condition in Einstein's gravity. We present an explicit boundary term that makes the Neumann variational problem well posed and explore its consequences for holography in various dimensions. In the third part of the dissertation, we use the CFT techniques of Rychkov and Tan to compute anomalous dimensions in the O(N) Gross-Neveu model in dimensions. To do this, we extend the "cow-pie contraction" algorithm of Basu and Krishnan to theories with fermions.

Slightly expanded version of the PhD thesis, defended on 5th September 2017, supervised by Chethan Krishnan, based on arXiv:1308.6741, arXiv:1312.2941, arXiv:1412.5053, arXiv:1510.05287, arXiv:1605.01603, arXiv:1609.06300, arXiv:1703.01769

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