Speaker
Dr
Stefan Fredenhagen
(MPI for Gravitational Physics)
Description
Higher-spin gauge theories become particularly simple in 2+1 dimensions, where there are no propagating degrees of freedom. Nevertheless they are useful toy models to study e.g. higher-spin generalisations of black holes or holographic dualities. Most of the research on this subject has been done in the frame-like formalism with generalised vielbeins and spin connections. I will report on recent progress on the metric-like formulation. Such a formulation might shed light on the geometric structure of higher-spin gauge theories, and it allows to apply standard field theoretic techniques like the computation of the Wald entropy for higher spin black holes.
Primary author
Dr
Stefan Fredenhagen
(MPI for Gravitational Physics)
