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Chiral Quartic Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-03-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study New Massive Gravity (NMG) with Chern-Simons (CS), cubic, and quartic terms under the Comp\`ere-Song-Strominger (CSS) boundary conditions. By employing a semi-product of a Virasoro and a U(1)U(1) Kac-Moody current algebra as the asymptotic symmetry algebra, we calculate the entropy of BTZ black holes via the degeneracy of states belonging to a Warped-CFT. Then, we compute the linearized energy excitations using the representations of the algebra U(1)×SL(2,R)RU(1)\times SL(2, R)_{R} and demonstrate that the energies of excitations are non-negative at two chiral points in the parameter space.

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@article{arxiv.2510.13155,
  title  = {Chiral Quartic Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions},
  author = {Seyed Naseh Sajadi and Supakchai Ponglertsakul},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.13155},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

21 pages, 2 appendices. More analysis has been done, and one figure has been added

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