Higher Spin Black Holes

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We study classical solutions of three dimensional higher spin gravity in the Chern-Simons formulation.

• We find solutions that generalize the BTZ black hole and carry spin-3 charge.
• The black hole entropy formula yields a result for the asymptotic growth of the partition function at finite spin-3 chemical potential.
• Along the way, we develop technology for computing AdS/CFT correlation functions involving higher spin operators.