This thesis is devoted to the group-theoretic aspects of three-dimensional quantum gravity on Anti-de Sitter and Minkowskian backgrounds. In particular we describe the relation between unitary representations of asymptotic symmetry groups and gravitational perturbations around a space-time metric. In the asymptotically flat case this leads to BMS particles, representing standard relativistic particles dressed with gravitational degrees of freedom accounted for by coadjoint orbits of the Virasoro group. Their thermodynamics are described by BMS characters, which coincide with gravitational one-loop partition functions. We also extend these considerations to higher-spin theories and supergravity. / Doctorat en Sciences / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ulb.ac.be/oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/231882 |
| Date | 24 June 2016 |
| Creators | Oblak, Blagoje |
| Contributors | Barnich, Glenn, Henneaux, Marc, Tiniakov, Petr, Detournay, Stéphane, Bossard, Guillaume G.B., Kleinschmidt, Axel |
| Publisher | Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des Sciences – Physique, Bruxelles |
| Source Sets | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation |
| Format | 3 full-text file(s): application/pdf | application/pdf | application/pdf |
| Rights | 3 full-text file(s): info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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