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Gravitational Chern-Simons and the adiabatic limit

Mathematical Physics 2015-05-18 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We compute the gravitational Chern-Simons term explicitly for an adiabatic family of metrics using standard methods in general relativity. We use the fact that our base three-manifold is a quasi-regular K-contact manifold heavily in this computation. Our key observation is that this geometric assumption corresponds exactly to a Kaluza-Klein Ansatz for the metric tensor on our three manifold, which allows us to translate our problem into the language of general relativity. Similar computations have been performed in a paper of Guralnik, Iorio, Jackiw and Pi (2003), although not in the adiabatic context.

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@article{arxiv.1004.2909,
  title  = {Gravitational Chern-Simons and the adiabatic limit},
  author = {Brendan McLellan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.2909},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages

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