BPS phases and fortuity in higher spin holography

Seok Kim, Jehyun Lee, Siyul Lee +1

We study the BPS states of $U(N{)}_k\times U(1{)}_{-k}$ vector Chern-Simons theory on a sphere at weak coupling $\lambda =\frac{N}{k}\ll 1$, dual to an AdS${}_4$ higher spin gravity. Higher spi…