Canonical analysis of cosmological topologically massive gravity at the chiral point
Jun, 200813 pages
- Published: Sep 23, 2009 by World Scientific
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- 0806.4185 [hep-th]
Report number:
- MIT-CTP-3957,
- UUITP-12-08
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Wolfgang Kummer was a pioneer of two-dimensional gravity and a strong advocate of the first order formulation in terms of Cartan variables. In the present work we apply Wolfgang Kummer's philosophy, the `Vienna School approach', to a specific three-dimensional model of gravity, cosmological topologically massive gravity at the chiral point. Exploiting a new Chern-Simons representation we perform a canonical analysis. The dimension of the physical phase space is two per point, and thus the theory exhibits a local physical degree of freedom, the topologically massive graviton.Note:
- Published in 'Fundamental Interactions: A Memorial Volume for Wolfgang Kummer,' Editors: Daniel Grumiller, Anton Rebhan and Dimitri Vassilevich, World Scientific, 2010, pp.363-374
- gravitation
- dimension: 3
- mass: topological
- Hamiltonian formalism
- transformation: chiral
- supergravity
- asymptotic behavior
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