Chern-Simons Gravity and Holographic Anomalies

Abstract

We present a holographic treatment of Chern-Simons (CS) gravity theories in odd dimensions. We construct the associated holographic stress tensor and calculate the Weyl anomalies of the dual CFT.

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• AdS/CFT correspondence and Geometry
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