AdS3 Pure Gravity and Stringy Unitarity
Abstract
We construct a unitary, modular-invariant torus partition function of a two-dimensional conformal field theory with a Virasoro primary spectral gap of Δ*=[(c -1 )/12 ] above the vacuum. The twist gap is identical, apart from two states O* with spin scaling linearly in the central charge c . These states admit an AdS3 interpretation as strongly coupled strings. All other states are black hole microstates.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- January 2024
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.041602
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2308.01787
- Bibcode:
- 2024PhRvL.132d1602D
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
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