Quantization of conical spaces in 3D gravity
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2015)060" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2015)060</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2015)060" target="_blank" >10.1007/JHEP03(2015)060</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Quantization of conical spaces in 3D gravity
Original language description
We discuss the quantization and holographic aspects of a class of conical spaces in 2+1 dimensional pure AdS gravity. These appear as topological solitons in the Chern-Simons formulation of the theory and are closely related to the recently studied conical solutions in higher spin gravity. We discuss the classical fluctuations around these solutions, which form exceptional coadjoint orbits of the asymptotic Virasoro group. We argue that the quantization of these solutions leads to nonunitary representations of the Virasoro algebra, on account of their having boundary graviton fluctuations which lower the energy. We propose a framework to quantize them in a semiclassical expansion in the inverse central charge, which we use to compute their one-loop corrected energies. Interestingly, the resulting Virasoro representations contain a null vector, thus providing an appearance of Kac?s degenerate representations, which are nonunitary at large central charge, in the context of gravity.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
BE - Theoretical physics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-31689S" target="_blank" >GA14-31689S: Quantum gravity and string theory</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN
1029-8479
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Volume of the periodical
2015
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
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UT code for WoS article
000363467300005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84924871369