Chern-Simons modified general relativity: Conserved charges

2007/10/31 by Bayram Tekin · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.77.024005

published as Phys.Rev.D77:024005,2008 · 9 pages, References added, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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Abstract

We construct the conserved charges (mass and angular momentum) of the Chern-Simons modified general relativity in asymptotically flat and anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes. Our definition is based on background Killing symmetries and reduces to the known expressions in the proper limits.

Citations

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• Gravitational Energy in Quadratic-Curvature Gravities
• Dynamical Structure and Definition of Energy in General Relativity
• Topologically massive gauge theories

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