Alejandra Castro

Conical defects in higher spin theories

A bstractWe study conical defect geometries in the SL(N,

Wilson Lines and Entanglement Entropy in Higher Spin Gravity

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Black holes and singularity resolution in higher spin gravity

) × SL(N,

Holographic entanglement entropy and gravitational anomalies

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Higher spin entanglement and

) (and SL(N,

{\mathcal{W}}_{\mathrm{N}}

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conformal blocks

)) Chern-Simons formulation of higher spin gauge theories in AdS3. We argue that (for N ≥ 4) there are special values of the deficit angle for which these geometries are actually smooth configurations of the underlying theory. We also exhibit a gauge in which these geometries can be viewed as wormholes interpolating between two distinct asymptotically AdS3 spacetimes. Remarkably, the spectrum of smooth SL(N,

Holographic Description of AdS_2 Black Holes

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On the Universality of Inner Black Hole Mechanics and Higher Curvature Gravity

) solutions, after an appropriate analytic continuation, exactly matches that of the so-called “light primaries” in the minimal model

The Gravity Dual of the Ising Model

{\mathcal{W}_N}