English
 
Help Privacy Policy Disclaimer
  Advanced SearchBrowse

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT
Add to Basket
  Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released
Journal Article

Asymptotic W-symmetries in three-dimensional higher-spin gauge theories

MPS-Authors
/persons/resource/persons37479

Campoleoni,  Andrea
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons20708

Fredenhagen,  Stefan
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

/persons/resource/persons37477

Pfenninger,  Stefan
Quantum Gravity & Unified Theories, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

External Resource
No external resources are shared
Fulltext (restricted access)
There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.
Fulltext (public)

1107.0290
(Preprint), 596KB

JHEP1109 _2011_113 .pdf
(Any fulltext), 515KB

Supplementary Material (public)
There is no public supplementary material available
Citation

Campoleoni, A., Fredenhagen, S., & Pfenninger, S. (2011). Asymptotic W-symmetries in three-dimensional higher-spin gauge theories. Journal of high energy physics: JHEP, 2011(9): 113. doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2011)113.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-068F-6
Abstract
We discuss how to systematically compute the asymptotic symmetry algebras of generic three-dimensional bosonic higher-spin gauge theories in backgrounds that are asymptotically AdS. We apply these techniques to a one-parameter family of higher-spin gauge theories that can be considered as large N limits of SL(N) x SL(N) Chern-Simons theories, and we provide a closed formula for the structure constants of the resulting infinite-dimensional non-linear W-algebras. Along the way we provide a closed formula for the structure constants of all classical W_N algebras. In both examples the higher-spin generators of the W-algebras are Virasoro primaries. We eventually discuss how to relate our basis to a non-primary quadratic basis that was previously discussed in literature.