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A note on positive energy of topologically massive gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-03-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

I review how "classical SUGRA" embeddability establishes positive energy E for D=3 topologically massive gravity (TMG), with or without a cosmological term, a procedure familiar from D=4 Einstein gravity (GR). It also provides explicit expressions for E. In contrast to GR, E is not manifestly positive, due to the peculiar two-term nature of TMG.

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@article{arxiv.0907.4135,
  title  = {A note on positive energy of topologically massive gravity},
  author = {S. Deser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.4135},
  year   = {2011}
}

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