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Smoothed Transitions in Higher Spin AdS Gravity
Shamik Banerjee, Alejandra Castro, Simeon Hellerman +4
We consider CFTs conjectured to be dual to higher spin theories of gravity in AdS_3 and AdS_4. Two dimensional CFTs with W_N symmetry are considered in the lambda=0 (k --> infinity…
The Wave Function of Quantum de Sitter
Alejandra Castro, Alexander Maloney
We consider quantum general relativity in three dimensions with a positive cosmological constant. The Hartle-Hawking wave function is computed as a function of metric data at asymp…
Universal properties and the first law of black hole inner mechanics
Alejandra Castro, Maria J. Rodriguez
We show by explicit computations that the product of all the horizon areas is independent of the mass, regardless of the topology of the horizons. The universal character of this r…
Unitarity Bounds in AdS_3 Higher Spin Gravity
Alejandra Castro, Eliot Hijano, Arnaud Lepage-Jutier
We study SL(N,R) Chern-Simons gauge theories in three dimensions. The choice of the embedding of SL(2,R) in SL(N,R), together with asymptotic boundary conditions, defines a theory…