AdS₃ Pure Gravity and Stringy Unitarity

2023/08/03 by Di Ubaldo, Gabriele, Perlmutter, Eric
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2308.01787

Abstract

We construct a unitary, modular-invariant torus partition function of a two-dimensional conformal field theory with a Virasoro primary spectral gap of Δ_* = (c-1)/(12) above the vacuum. The twist gap is identical, apart from two states O_* with spin scaling linearly in the central charge c. These states admit an AdS₃ interpretation as strongly coupled strings. All other states are black hole microstates.

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