Flat-Space Chiral Gravity

Aug, 2012
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 109 (2012) 151301
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We provide the first evidence for a holographic correspondence between a gravitational theory in flat space and a specific unitary field theory in one dimension lower. The gravitational theory is a flat-space limit of topologically massive gravity in three dimensions at Chern-Simons level k=1. The field theory is a chiral two-dimensional conformal field theory with central charge c=24.
Note:
  • 5 pages, v2: minor rearrangements
  • 04.20.Ha
  • 11.25.Tq
  • 04.60.Rt
  • gravitation: massive
  • mass: topological
  • gravitation: chiral
  • central charge
  • holography
  • unitarity
  • spectrum: gap