Flat-space chiral gravity

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Oct 12;109(15):151301. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.151301. Epub 2012 Oct 9.

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.