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arxiv: 1209.2860 · v2 · pith:VX42I5CQnew · submitted 2012-09-13 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Non-AdS holography in 3-dimensional higher spin gravity - General recipe and example

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We present the general algorithm to establish the classical and quantum asymptotic symmetry algebra for non-AdS higher spin gravity and implement it for the specific example of spin-3 gravity in the non-principal embedding with Lobachevsky (H^2xR) boundary conditions. The asymptotic symmetry algebra for this example consists of a quantum W_3^2 (Polyakov-Bershadsky) and an affine u(1) algebra. We show that unitary representations of the quantum W_3^2 algebra exist only for two values of its central charge, the trivial c=0 "theory" and the simple c=1 theory.

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