Conical Defects in Higher Spin Theories

Details Conical Defects in Higher Spin Theories Conical Defects in Higher Spin Theories

2011-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/1111.3381v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

38 pages

Scientific paper

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 angle for which these geometries are actually smooth configurations of the underlying theory. We also exhibit a gauge in which these geometries can be viewed as wormholes interpolating between two distinct asymptotically AdS_3 spacetimes. Remarkably, the spectrum of smooth SL(N,C) solutions, after an appropriate analytic continuation, exactly matches that of the so-called "light primaries" in the minimal model W_N CFTs at finite N. This gives a candidate bulk interpretation of the latter states in the holographic duality proposed in [1].

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