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Exotic massive 3D gravity

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Ozkan, M 
Pang, Y 
Townsend, PK 

Abstract

The linearized equations of “New Massive Gravity” propagate a parity doublet of massive spin-2 modes in 3D Minkowski spacetime, but a different non-linear extension is made possible by “third-way” consistency. There is a “Chern-Simons-like” action, as for other 3D massive gravity models, but the new theory is “exotic”: its action is parity odd. This “Exotic Massive Gravity” is the next-to-simplest case in an infinite sequence of third-way consistent 3D gravity theories, the simplest being the “Minimal Massive Gravity” alternative to “Topologically Massive Gravity”.

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Keywords

Chern-Simons Theories, Classical Theories of Gravity, Field Theories in Lower Dimensions

Journal Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Journal ISSN

1126-6708
1029-8479

Volume Title

2018

Publisher

Springer