1208.1851 (Andrea Campoleoni et al.)

Towards metric-like higher-spin gauge theories in three dimensions    [PDF]

Andrea Campoleoni, Stefan Fredenhagen, Stefan Pfenninger, Stefan Theisen

We consider the coupling of a symmetric spin-3 gauge field to three-dimensional gravity in a second order metric-like formulation. The action that corresponds to an SL(3,R) x SL(3,R) Chern-Simons theory in the frame-like formulation is identified to quadratic order in the spin-3 field. We apply our result to compute corrections to the area law for higher-spin black holes using Wald's entropy formula.

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