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Gravity Waves in Three Dimensions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-10-14 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We find the explicit forms of the anti-de Sitter plane, anti-de Sitter spherical, and pp waves that solve both the linearized and exact field equations of the most general higher derivative gravity theory in three dimensions. As a sub-class, we work out the six derivative theory and the critical version of it where the masses of the two spin-2 excitations vanish and the spin-0 excitations decouple.

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@article{arxiv.1509.03167,
  title  = {Gravity Waves in Three Dimensions},
  author = {Metin Gurses and Tahsin Cagri Sisman and Bayram Tekin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03167},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages, matches the published version

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