Chiral topologically massive gravity and extremal B-F scalars

2009/06/30 by S. Carlip, S Carlip · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boundary (topology) #Boundary value problem #Cosmological constant #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Logarithm #Massive gravity #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Scalar (mathematics) #Scalar field #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/083

published as JHEP 0909:083,2009 · 16 pages; v2: added references, typos corrected

arxiv created 2009/07/07 · openalex publication_date 2009/09/17 · arxiv updated 2010/04/28 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

At a critical ``chiral'' coupling, topologically massive gravity with a negative cosmological constant exhibits several unusual features, including the emergence of a new logarithmic branch of solutions and a linearization instability for certain boundary conditions. I show that at this coupling, the linearized theory may be parametrized by a free scalar field at the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound, and use this description to investigate these features.

Citations

• Stability of gravity with a cosmological constant
• Chiral gravity in three dimensions
• Topologically massive AdS gravity
• The constraint algebra of topologically massive AdS gravity
• Central charges in the canonical realization of asymptotic symmetries: An example from three dimensional gravity
• Cosmological topologically massive gravitons and photons
• Topologically massive gauge theories

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