Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2011-06-23
JHEP 1110:053,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
33 pages, v2: references added, signs corrected
Scientific paper
Higher spin gravity is an interesting toy model of stringy geometry. Particularly intriguing is the presence of higher spin gauge transformations that redefine notions of invariance in gravity: the existence of event horizons and singularities in the metric become gauge dependent. In previous work, solutions of spin-3 gravity in the SL(3,R) x SL(3,R) Chern-Simons formulation were found, and were proposed to play the role of black holes. However, in the gauge employed there, the spacetime metric describes a traversable wormhole connecting two asymptotic regions, rather than a black hole. In this paper, we show explicitly that under a higher spin gauge transformation these solutions can be transformed to describe black holes with manifestly smooth event horizons, thereby changing the spacetime causal structure. A related aspect is that the Chern-Simons theory admits two distinct AdS_3 vacua with different asymptotic W-algebra symmetries and central charges. We show that these vacua are connected by an explicit, Lorentz symmetry-breaking RG flow, of which our solutions represent finite temperature generalizations. These features will be present in any SL(N,R) x SL(N,R) Chern-Simons theory of higher spins.
Ammon Martin
Gutperle Michael
Kraus Per
Perlmutter Eric
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