Higher-spin gauge theories in three spacetime dimensions

Abstract

These lecture notes provide an introduction to higher-spin gauge theories in three spacetime dimensions, with a focus on their asymptotic symmetries, their holographic description in terms of conformal field theories with W-symmetries as well as on their couplings to scalar matter.

arXiv comment132 pages. Contribution to a collection of lecture notes on higher-spin theories published in Lect. Notes Phys. V2: references added

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