TOPOLOGICALLY MASSIVE PLANAR UNIVERSE

May, 1985
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 163 (1985) 91-95
  • Published: 1985
Report number:
  • MIT-CTP-1267

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
A stationary, radially symmetric vacuum solution to three-dimensional, topologically massive gravity is presented. All four Killing vectors of the space-time are identified and the geodetic equation is solved. An analogy with “Gödel's Universe” is discussed.
  • ASTROPHYSICS
  • GRAVITATION: THREE-DIMENSIONAL
  • FIELD THEORY: SPACE-TIME
  • Einstein equation
  • FIELD EQUATIONS: SOLUTION
  • INVARIANCE: CONFORMAL
  • MASS: TOPOLOGICAL
  • TOPOLOGICAL: MASS