Aspects of Higher Spin Theories Conformal Field Theories and Holography

This dissertation consist of three parts. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the study of gravity and higher spin gauge theories in 2+1 dimensions. We construct cosmological so-lutions of higher spin gravity in 2+1 dimensional de Sitter space. We show that a consistent thermodynamics can be...

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Main Author: Raju, Avinash
Other Authors: Krishnan, Chethan
Language:en_US
Published: 2018
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Online Access:http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/2005/3643
http://etd.iisc.ernet.in/abstracts/4513/G28463-Abs.pdf