Three-dimensional spin-3 theories based on general kinematical algebras

Autor(en)

Eric Bergshoeff, Daniel Grumiller, Stefan Prohazka, Jan Rosseel

Abstrakt

We initiate the study of non- and ultra-relativistic higher spin theories. For sake of simplicity we focus on the spin-3 case in three dimensions. We classify all kinematical algebras that can be obtained by all possible Inonti-Wigner contraction procedures of the kinematical algebra of spin-3 theory in three dimensional (anti-) de Sitter space-time. We demonstrate how to construct associated actions of Chern-Simons type, directly in the ultra-relativistic case and by suitable algebraic extensions in the non-relativistic case. We show how to give these kinematical algebras an infinite-dimensional lift by imposing suitable boundary conditions in a theory we call "Carroll Gravity", whose asymptotic symmetry algebra turns out to be an infinite-dimensional extension of the Carroll algebra.

Organisation(en)

Mathematische Physik

Externe Organisation(en)

University of Groningen, Technische Universität Wien, Universität Bern

Journal

Journal of High Energy Physics

Band

2017

Anzahl der Seiten

49

ISSN

1029-8479

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2017)114

Publikationsdatum

01-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103012 Hochenergiephysik, 103028 Relativitätstheorie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/ab67818f-01a0-4214-8cd4-da476a256f2e