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Arjun Bagchi1, Stéphane Detournay, Daniel Grumiller
1School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. arjun.bagchi@ed.ac.uk
Abstract:
We provide the first evidence for a holographic correspondence between a gravitational theory in flat space and a specific unitary field theory in one dimension lower. The gravitational theory is a flat-space limit of topologically massive gravity in three dimensions at a Chern-Simons level of k=1. The field theory is a chiral two-dimensional conformal field theory with a central charge of c=24.
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