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We include a Chern-Simons term in a GL(3,R) gauge formulation of gravity with a cosmological contribution in 2+1 dimension and we explore consistence showing that excitations must be causal and standard topological massive gravity is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Rolando Gaitan

We study topologically massive (2+1)-dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant. The masses of the linearized curvature excitations about AdS_3 backgrounds are not only shifted from their flat background values but, more…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip , S. Deser , A. Waldron , D. K. Wise

Conformal symmetries appear in many parts of physics and play a unique role in exploring the Universe. In this work, we consider the possibility of constructing conformal theories of gravity in the Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity framework,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Viktor Gakis , Martin Krššák , Jackson Levi Said , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Logarithmic representations of the conformal Galilean algebra (CGA) and the Exotic Conformal Galilean algebra ({\sc ecga}) are constructed. This can be achieved by non-decomposable representations of the scaling dimensions or the rapidity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-10 Malte Henkel , Ali Hosseiny , Shahin Rouhani

We define and discuss classical and quantum gravity in 2+1 dimensions in the Galilean limit. Although there are no Newtonian forces between massive objects in (2+1)-dimensional gravity, the Galilean limit is not trivial. Depending on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 Georgios Papageorgiou , Bernd J. Schroers

We set up the AdS/CFT correspondence for topologically massive gravity (TMG) in three dimensions. The first step in this procedure is to determine the appropriate fall off conditions at infinity. These cannot be fixed a priori as they…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Kostas Skenderis , Marika Taylor , Balt C. van Rees

We consider three dimensional gravity with a positive cosmological constant and non- zero gravitational Chern-Simons term. This theory has inflating de Sitter solutions and local metric degrees of freedom. The Euclidean signature partition…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-23 Alejandra Castro , Nima Lashkari , Alexander Maloney

We analyze the construction of conformal theories of gravity in the realm of teleparallel theories. We first present a family of conformal theories which are quadratic in the torsion tensor and are constructed out of the tetrad field and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-19 J. W. Maluf , F. F. Faria

We apply the nonlinear realizations method for constructing new Galilean conformal mechanics models. Our starting point is the Galilean conformal algebra which is a non-relativistic contraction of its relativistic counterpart. We calculate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Sergey Fedoruk , Evgeny Ivanov , Jerzy Lukierski

In this paper, we study the Carrollian and Galilean conformal field theories (CCFT and GCFT) in $d>2$ dimensions. We construct the highest weight representations (HWR) of Carrollian and Galilean conformal algebra (CCA and GCA). Even though…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Bin Chen , Reiko Liu , Yu-fan Zheng

We derive the infinite dimensional Supersymmetric Galilean Conformal Algebra (SGCA) in the case of two spacetime dimensions by performing group contraction on 2d superconformal algebra. We also obtain the representations of the generators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-10 Ipsita Mandal

Galilean conformal algebra (GCA) is an Inonu-Wigner (IW) contraction of a conformal algebra, while Newton-Hooke string algebra is an IW contraction of an AdS algebra which is the isometry of an AdS space. It is shown that the GCA is a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Makoto Sakaguchi

We derive the extended Supersymmetric Galilean Conformal Algebra (SGCA) in two spacetime dimensions by the method of group contraction on $2d$ $\mathcal{N}=(2,2)$ superconformal algebra. Both the parent and daughter algebras are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Ipsita Mandal , Ahmed Rayyan

The asymptotic group of symmetries at null infinity of flat spacetimes in three and four dimensions is the infinite dimensional Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group. This has recently been shown to be isomorphic to non-relativistic conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-05 Arjun Bagchi , Reza Fareghbal

We consider Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG), which is three dimensional general relativity with a cosmological constant and a gravitational Chern-Simons term. When the cosmological constant is negative the theory has two potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-23 Nima Lashkari , Alexander Maloney

In this study, we investigate three-dimensional torsional Newton-Cartan (TNC) gravity by gauging the su$(1,2)\oplus$u$(1)$ algebra and construct its action using the Chern-Simons theory. This TNC exhibits novel features, including the fact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-08 Yang Lei , Dong Zhang

In this thesis, we studied the Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG) in two perspectives. Firstly, by using real scalar and abelian gauge fields, we built the Weyl-invariant extension of TMG which unifies cosmological TMG and Topologically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-19 Ercan Kilicarslan

We construct a novel tensionless limit of Superstring theory that realises the Inhomogeneous Super Galilean Conformal Algebra (SGCA$_I$) as the residual symmetries in the analogue of the conformal gauge, as opposed to previous constructions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Arjun Bagchi , Aritra Banerjee , Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Pulastya Parekh

In this paper we present an alternative cosmological extension of the three-dimensional extended Newtonian Chern-Simons gravity by switching on the torsion. The theory is obtained as a non-relativistic limit of an enhancement and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-08 Patrick Concha , Evelyn Rodríguez , Gustavo Rubio , Paola Yañez

A canonical quantization for two dimensional gravity models, including a dilaton gravity model, is performed in a way suitable for the light-cone gauge. We extend the theory developed by Abdalla {\it et.al.}\cite{AM} and obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Taku Uchino