2010/10/31 by Daniel Grumiller, Niklas Johansson, Thomas Zojer · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Conformal field theory #Conformal map #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dual polyhedron #Field theory (psychology) #Logarithm #Massive gravity #Massless particle #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Rank (graph theory) #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep01(2011)090
published as JHEP 1101:090,2011 · 34 pages, 2 figures; v2: added references; v3: Several rewordings in the introduction and section 2, added references. Matches published version
openalex publication_date 2011/01/01 · arxiv created 2011/08/16 · arxiv updated 2011/08/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Various massive gravity theories in three dimensions are conjecturally dual to logarithmic conformal field theories (LCFTs). We summarise the status of these conjectures. LCFTs are characterised by the values of the central charges and the so-called "new anomalies". We employ a short-cut to calculate these new anomalies in generalised massive gravity and in the recently proposed higher-derivative gravity theories with holographic c-theorem. Both cases permit LCFTs exhibiting intriguing features, like rank three Jordan cells or non-zero central charges. Finally, as an example we discuss in some detail the partially massless version of new massive gravity, a theory with several special properties that we call "partially massless gravity".