Flat space (higher spin) gravity with chemical potentials

Nov 13, 2014
42 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 01 (2015) 152
  • Published: Jan 30, 2015
e-Print:
Report number:
  • TUW-14-15

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Abstract: (Springer)
We introduce flat space spin-3 gravity in the presence of chemical potentials and discuss some applications to flat space cosmology solutions, their entropy, free energy and flat space orbifold singularity resolution. Our results include flat space Einstein gravity with chemical potentials as special case. We discover novel types of phase transitions between flat space cosmologies with spin-3 hair and show that the branch that continuously connects to spin-2 gravity becomes thermodynamically unstable for sufficiently large temperature or spin-3 chemical potential.
Note:
  • 42 pages, v2: added references and comparison with AdS results by David, Ferlaino and Kumar
  • Higher Spin Gravity
  • Field Theories in Lower Dimensions
  • Higher Spin Symmetry
  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • potential: chemical
  • space: Einstein
  • cosmological model: solution
  • orbifold: singularity
  • spin: high
  • gravitation