Unitarity bounds in AdS3 higher spin gravity

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Castro, Alejandra ^a   Hijano, Eliot ^a   Lepage Jutier, Arnaud ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Chern Simons theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864339269     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2012)001     Document Type: Article

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