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Main Authors: Pathak, Shivesh, Kovalsky, Lucas Kocia
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12546
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author Pathak, Shivesh
Kovalsky, Lucas Kocia
author_facet Pathak, Shivesh
Kovalsky, Lucas Kocia
contents Known solutions to three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant so far consist of either AdS$_3$ or its orbifolds (or orientifolds). We geometrically derive a novel non-orientable AdS$_3$ spacetime that is an orientifold of a spinor double cover of AdS$_3$, unlike existing solutions. This spacetime's universal cover contains a lightlike instead of spacelike compact direction. We show that its gravity theory possesses a simpler excited state spectrum and exhibits a Chern-Simons/Wess-Zumino-Witt (CS/WZW) correspondence between only one independent CS term and boundary chiral WZW term. This leads us to suggest that CS theory is able to more fully describe non-orientable pure gravity theory compared to orientable gravity.
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spellingShingle Non-Orientable AdS$_3$ and its Holography
Pathak, Shivesh
Kovalsky, Lucas Kocia
High Energy Physics - Theory
Known solutions to three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant so far consist of either AdS$_3$ or its orbifolds (or orientifolds). We geometrically derive a novel non-orientable AdS$_3$ spacetime that is an orientifold of a spinor double cover of AdS$_3$, unlike existing solutions. This spacetime's universal cover contains a lightlike instead of spacelike compact direction. We show that its gravity theory possesses a simpler excited state spectrum and exhibits a Chern-Simons/Wess-Zumino-Witt (CS/WZW) correspondence between only one independent CS term and boundary chiral WZW term. This leads us to suggest that CS theory is able to more fully describe non-orientable pure gravity theory compared to orientable gravity.
title Non-Orientable AdS$_3$ and its Holography
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12546