A Pure Cotton Kink in a Funny Place
Mathematical Physics
2015-06-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Abstract
When the 3-dimensional gravitational Chern-Simons term is reduced to two dimensions a dilaton-like gravity theory emerges. Its solutions involve kinks, which therefore describe 3-dimensional, conformally flat spaces.
Cite
@article{arxiv.math-ph/0403044,
title = {A Pure Cotton Kink in a Funny Place},
author = {R. Jackiw},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0403044},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
New title, further calculation on line element, SUSY generalization