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The black holes of topologically massive gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We show that an analytical continuation of the Vuorio solution to three-dimensional topologically massive gravity leads to a two-parameter family of black hole solutions, which are geodesically complete and causally regular within a certain parameter range. No observers can remain static in these spacetimes. We discuss their global structure, and evaluate their mass, angular momentum, and entropy, which satisfy a slightly modified form of the first law of thermodynamics.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0303042,
  title  = {The black holes of topologically massive gravity},
  author = {Karim Ait Moussa and Gerard Clement and Cedric Leygnac},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0303042},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages; Eq. (15) corrected, references added, version to appear in Classical and Quantum Gravity