Flat space holography in spin-2 extended dilaton-gravity

Abstract

Abstract We present an interacting spin-2 gauge theory coupled to the two-dimensional dilaton-gravity in flat spacetime. The asymptotic symmetry group is enhanced to the central extension of Diff(S 1)⋉C ∞ (S 1)⋉Vec(S 1) when the central element of the Heisenberg subgroup is zero (vanishing U(1) level). Using the BF-formulation of the model we derive the corresponding boundary coadjoint action which is the spin-2 extension of the warped Schwarzian theory at vanishing U(1) level. We also discuss the thermodynamics of black holes in this model.

Keywords

• 2D Gravity
• Differential and Algebraic Geometry
• Field Theories in Lower Dimensions
• Gauge-gravity correspondence