
doi: 10.82308/17341
In this thesis we study higher spin theories in three dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant based on the gauge group SL(N,R)xSL(N,R). First we introduce the topic of semi-classical gravity in three dimensional anti de Sitter space andits conjectured duality with a two dimensional conformal field theory. We study black hole solutions for the case of N=3 characterized by their holonomies around the non-contractible cycles of space-time. The black hole solutions are shown to be gauge equivalent to a BTZ black hole which is charged under a set of U(1) Chern-Simons fields. Nevertheless, depending on the choice of embedding of the gravitational gauge group, the space-time geometry may be non-trivial. We also investigate in detail the physical sensibility of non principal embeddings of the gravitational SL(2,R) in SL(N,R) and we conclude that theonly embedding with a positive definite spectrum is the principal one.
Cette thèse s'intéresse aux théories gravitationnelles couplées à des spins entiers avec une constante cosmologiquenégative, dont l'origine provient de l'étude du groupe de jauge sl_N. La gravitation dans l'espace tridimensionnel anti de Sitter est d'abord décrite de manière semi-classique et la dualité avec la théorie conforme de champs en deux dimensions est ensuite présentée. L'exposition des solutions de la théorie N=3 permet la caractérisation des trous noirs par les propriétés des holonomies autour de boucles non-contractiles. L'invariance de jauge rapproche alors ces solutions aux trous noirs BTZ avec une charge d'un champ Chern-Simons. Néanmoins, la géometrie de l'espace-temps dépend du plongement des symétries gravitationnelles SL(2,R) dans le groupe de jauge SL(N,R). Le spectre des solutions est calculé pour tous ces plongements, et la condition de positivité exclut alors tous les cas sauf le plongement principal.
Maloney, Alexander (Internal/Supervisor)
Physics - Theory, Physics -- Theory
Physics - Theory, Physics -- Theory
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