Speaker
Dr
Juan Jottar
(ETH Zurich)
Description
We discuss various aspects of three-dimensional higher spin
black holes, in the context of the AdS_3/CFT_2
correspondence. In particular, we describe how to exploit the
Chern-Simons formulation of higher spin theories in AdS_3 in
order to derive properties of 2d CFTs with extended
symmetry algebras, in the semiclassical (large central
charge) limit. We will mainly focus on 2d CFTs with W-
symmetry, and comment on how to derive their
thermodynamic and modular transformation properties,
entanglement entropy, supersymmetry and BPS bounds, by
studying black hole solutions in the dual Chern-Simons
theories.
