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Critical gravity in the Chern-Simons modified gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-30 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We perform the perturbation analysis of the Chern-Simons modified gravity around the AdS4_4 spacetimes (its curvature radius \ell) to obtain the critical gravity. In general, we could not obtain an explicit form of perturbed Einstein equation which shows a massive graviton propagation clearly, but for the Kerr-Schild perturbation and Chern-Simons coupling θ=kx/y\theta=kx/y, we find the AdS wave as a single massive solution to the perturbed Einstein equation. Its mass squared is given by M2=[9+(22/k1)2]/42M^2=[-9+(2\ell^2/k-1)^2]/4\ell^2. At the critical point of M2=0(k=2/2)M^2=0(k=\ell^2/2), the solution takes the log-form and the linearized excitation energies vanish.

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@article{arxiv.1108.2612,
  title  = {Critical gravity in the Chern-Simons modified gravity},
  author = {Taeyoon Moon and Yun Soo Myung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.2612},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, 1 figure, version to appear in EPJC

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