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Spontaneous Breaking of Conformal Invariance and Trace Anomaly Matching
Adam Schwimmer, Stefan Theisen
We argue that when conformal symmetry is spontaneously broken the trace anomalies in the broken and unbroken phases are matched. This puts strong constraints on the various couplin…
Asymptotic symmetries of three-dimensional gravity coupled to higher-spin fields
Andrea Campoleoni, Stefan Fredenhagen, Stefan Pfenninger +1
We discuss the emergence of W-algebras as asymptotic symmetries of higher-spin gauge theories coupled to three-dimensional Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant. W…
Thermodynamic instability of doubly spinning black objects
Dumitru Astefanesei, Maria J. Rodriguez, Stefan Theisen
We investigate the thermodynamic stability of neutral black objects with (at least) two angular momenta. We use the quasilocal formalism to compute the grand canonical potential an…