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Conical Defects in Higher Spin Theories
Alejandra Castro, Rajesh Gopakumar, Michael Gutperle +1
We study conical defect geometries in the SL(N) Chern-Simons formulation of higher spin gauge theories in AdS_3. We argue that (for N\geq 4) there are special values of the deficit…
The Gravity Dual of the Ising Model
Alejandra Castro, Matthias R. Gaberdiel, Thomas Hartman +2
We evaluate the partition function of three dimensional theories of gravity in the quantum regime, where the AdS radius is Planck scale and the central charge is of order one. The…
Black Holes and Singularity Resolution in Higher Spin Gravity
Alejandra Castro, Eliot Hijano, Arnaud Lepage-Jutier +1
We investigate higher spin theories of gravity in three dimensions based on the gauge group SL(N,R)*SL(N,R). In these theories the usual diffeomorphism symmetry is enhanced to incl…
The Gravitational Exclusion Principle and Null States in Anti-de Sitter Space
Alejandra Castro, Thomas Hartman, Alexander Maloney
The holographic principle implies a vast reduction in the number of degrees of freedom of quantum gravity. This idea can be made precise in AdS_3, where the the stringy or gravitat…
Quantum Topologically Massive Gravity in de Sitter Space
Alejandra Castro, Nima Lashkari, Alexander Maloney
We consider three dimensional gravity with a positive cosmological constant and non- zero gravitational Chern-Simons term. This theory has inflating de Sitter solutions and local m…
A de Sitter Farey Tail
Alejandra Castro, Nima Lashkari, Alexander Maloney
We consider quantum Einstein gravity in three dimensional de Sitter space. The Euclidean path integral is formulated as a sum over geometries, including both perturbative loop corr…