Holographic quantization of linearized higher-spin gravity in the de Sitter causal patch

TL;DR

This paper develops a method to derive the Lorentzian commutators of linearized higher-spin gravity in de Sitter space directly from boundary CFT data, advancing the understanding of dS/CFT duality and higher-spin theories.

Contribution

It extends a technique to extract bulk quantum commutators for the entire higher-spin multiplet using a covariant boundary approach, enabling future inclusion of interactions.

Findings

Constructed Lorentzian commutators from Euclidean boundary data.

Applied the method to the full higher-spin multiplet.

Provided a boundary particle mechanics framework for bulk fields.

Abstract

We study the dS/CFT duality between minimal type-A higher-spin gravity and the free Sp(2N) vector model. We consider the bulk spacetime as "elliptic" de Sitter space dS_4/Z_2, in which antipodal points have been identified. We apply a technique from arXiv:1509.05890, which extracts the quantum-mechanical commutators (or Poisson brackets) of the linearized bulk theory in an *observable patch* of dS_4/Z_2 directly from the boundary 2-point function. Thus, we construct the Lorentzian commutators of the linearized bulk theory from the Euclidean CFT. In the present paper, we execute this technique for the entire higher-spin multiplet, using a higher-spin-covariant language, which provides a promising framework for the future inclusion of bulk interactions. Aside from its importance for dS/CFT, our construction of a Hamiltonian structure for a bulk causal region should be of interest within higher-spin theory itself. The price we pay is a partial symmetry breaking, from the full dS group (and its higher-spin extension) to the symmetry group of an observable patch. While the boundary field theory plays a role in our arguments, the results can be fully expressed within a boundary *particle mechanics*. Bulk fields arise from this boundary mechanics via a version of second quantization.