Joris Raeymaekers

Conical defects in higher spin theories

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

The semiclassical limit of W N CFTs and Vasiliev theory

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A note on conical solutions in 3D Vasiliev theory

) × SL(N,

Quantization of conical spaces in 3D gravity

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Multi-centered AdS3 solutions from Virasoro conformal blocks

) (and SL(N,

On big crunch solutions in Prokushkin-Vasiliev theory

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Unlocking the Axion-Dilaton in 5D Supergravity

)) 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,

Ghost sector of vacuum string field theory and the projection equation

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Quantizing higher-spin gravity in free-field variables

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

Relating chronology protection and unitarity through holography

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