Higher spin cosmology

2013/08/31 by Chethan Krishnan, Avinash Raju, Shubho Roy +1 · 2 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Anti-de Sitter space #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole thermodynamics #Boundary (topology) #Conformal field theory #Conformal map #Cosmology #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #De Sitter universe #Entropy (arrow of time) #Euclidean space #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Partition function (quantum field theory) #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Spin (aerodynamics) #Theoretical physics #Thermodynamics #Universe #de Sitter–Schwarzschild metric #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.89.045007

published as Phys. Rev. D 89, 045007 (2014) · 21 pages, v2: many typos fixed, refs added, v3: minor corrections/improvements, Phys. Rev. D version, v4: one more ref

arxiv created 2014/02/10 · openalex publication_date 2014/02/10 · arxiv updated 2014/02/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We construct cosmological solutions of higher spin gravity in 2+1 dimensional de Sitter space. We show that a consistent thermodynamics can be obtained for their horizons by demanding appropriate holonomy conditions. This is equivalent to demanding the integrability of the Euclidean boundary conformal field theory partition function, and it reduces to Gibbons-Hawking thermodynamics in the spin-2 case. By using the prescription of Maldacena, we relate the thermodynamics of these solutions to those of higher spin black holes in AdS₃.

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• Aspects of Higher Spin Theories, Conformal Field Theories and Holography
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