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What's the Matter with 3D Gravity?
Robert Bourne, Jackson R. Fliss, Bob Knighton
We revisit the problem of minimally coupling matter to Einstein gravity in three dimensions with negative cosmological constant. By working in the worldline formalism, we construct…
A superspace approach to AdS string theory
Bob Knighton, Nathan McStay, Vit Sriprachyakul
We carefully examine the Polyakov path integral for strings on in superspace, both for type II and heterotic superstrings. We construct a free-field realization of t…
A spool for every quotient: One-loop partition functions in AdS gravity
Robert Bourne, Jackson R. Fliss, Bob Knighton
The Wilson spool is a prescription for expressing one-loop determinants as topological line operators in three-dimensional gravity. We extend this program to describe massive spinn…
Tensionless AdS/CFT and Single Trace
Andrea Dei, Bob Knighton, Kiarash Naderi +1
One of the few cases of AdS/CFT where both sides of the duality are under good control relates tensionless strings on AdS to a two-dimensional symmetric product CFT. Buil…
Deriving the long-string CFT in AdS
Bob Knighton
We revisit the path integral formulation of bosonic string theory in locally-AdS spacetimes. Through a careful analysis of the worldsheet sigma model, we write down an effectiv…
Topological defects and tensionless holography
Bob Knighton, Vit Sriprachyakul, Jakub Vošmera
We study topological defect lines in the symmetric-product orbifolds for a generic seed CFT . We focus on the defects which preserve the maximum of the …