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Free energy of topologically massive gravity and flat space holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-07-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We calculate the free energy from the on-shell action for topologically massive gravity with negative and vanishing cosmological constant, thereby providing a first principles derivation of the free energy of Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black holes and flat space cosmologies. We summarize related recent checks of flat space holography.

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@article{arxiv.1509.08505,
  title  = {Free energy of topologically massive gravity and flat space holography},
  author = {Daniel Grumiller and Wout Merbis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.08505},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

9 pages, prepared for the proceedings of the Karl Schwarzschild meeting 2015. v2. Typo's corrected and ref's added