A theorem on topologically massive gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2010-04-06 v1
Abstract
We show that for three dimensional space-times admitting a hypersurface orthogonal Killing vector field Deser, Jackiw and Templeton's vacuum field equations of topologically massive gravity allow only the trivial flat space-time solution. Thus spin is necessary to support topological mass.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9812089,
title = {A theorem on topologically massive gravity},
author = {A. N. Aliev and Y. Nutku},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9812089},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
published in Classical and Quantum Gravity 13 (1996) L29