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The Classical Solutions of the Dimensionally Reduced Gravitational Chern-Simons Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The Kaluza-Klein reduction of the 3d gravitational Chern-Simons term to a 2d theory is equivalent to a Poisson-sigma model with fourdimensional target space and degenerate Poisson tensor of rank 2. Thus two constants of motion (Casimir functions) exist, namely charge and energy. The application of well-known methods developed in the framework of first order gravity allows to construct all classical solutions straightforwardly and to discuss their global structure. For a certain fine tuning of the values of the constants of motion the solutions of hep-th/0305117 are reproduced. Possible generalizations are pointed out.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0306036,
  title  = {The Classical Solutions of the Dimensionally Reduced Gravitational Chern-Simons Theory},
  author = {D. Grumiller and W. Kummer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0306036},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages, 9 figures