2010/06/30 by Geoffrey Compère, Sophie de Buyl, Stéphane Detournay
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep10(2010)042
published as JHEP 1010:042,2010 · 11 pages, 3 figures. v2: references and comments on linear stability (Sect.2) added
arxiv created 2010/08/25 · openalex publication_date 2010/10/01 · arxiv updated 2014/11/21 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
We analyze the asymptotic solutions of Chiral Gravity (Topologically Massive Gravity at μ ℓ= 1 with Brown-Henneaux boundary conditions) focusing on non-Einstein metrics. A class of such solutions admits curvature singularities in the interior which are reflected as singularities of the corresponding linear solutions. A non-linear solution is found exactly. The back-reaction induces a repulsion of geodesics and a shielding of the singularity by an event horizon but also introduces closed timelike curves.