Flat-space chiral gravity

We provide the first evidence for a holographic correspondence between a gravitational theory in flat space and a specific unitary field theory in one dimension lower. The gravitational theory is a flat-space limit of topologically massive gravity in three dimensions at a Chern-Simons level of k=1....

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2012-10, Vol.109 (15), p.151301-151301, Article 151301
Hauptverfasser: Bagchi, Arjun, Detournay, Stéphane, Grumiller, Daniel
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We provide the first evidence for a holographic correspondence between a gravitational theory in flat space and a specific unitary field theory in one dimension lower. The gravitational theory is a flat-space limit of topologically massive gravity in three dimensions at a Chern-Simons level of k=1. The field theory is a chiral two-dimensional conformal field theory with a central charge of c=24.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.151301