Quantizing higher-spin gravity in free-field variables

0502089 - FZÚ 2019 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Campoleoni, A. - Fredenhagen, S. - Raeymaekers, Joris
Quantizing higher-spin gravity in free-field variables.
Journal of High Energy Physics. Roč. 2018, č. 2 (2018), s. 1-31, č. článku 126. ISSN 1029-8479. E-ISSN 1029-8479
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF15_003/0000437; GA ČR GA17-22899S
Grant - others:OP VVV - CoGraDS(XE) CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000437
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : AdS-CFT correspondence * conformal and W symmetry * field theories in lower dimensions * Higher Spin Gravity
OECD category: Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect)
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We study the formulation of massless higher-spin gravity on AdS3 in a gauge in which the fundamental variables satisfy free field Poisson brackets. This gauge choice leaves a small portion of the gauge freedom unfixed, which should be further quotiented out. We show that doing so leads to a bulk version of the Coulomb gas formalism for WN CFT’s: the generators of the residual gauge symmetries are the classical limits of screening charges, while the gauge-invariant observables are classical WN charges.

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