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 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 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