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One-loop partition function of three-dimensional flat gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-11 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this note we point out that the one-loop partition function of three-dimensional flat gravity, computed along the lines originally developed for the anti-de Sitter case, reproduces characters of the BMS3 group.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1502.06185,
  title  = {One-loop partition function of three-dimensional flat gravity},
  author = {Glenn Barnich and Hernan A. Gonzalez and Alexander Maloney and Blagoje Oblak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.06185},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages. v2: Minor misprints corrected, reference [10] updated. Published in JHEP

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