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We discuss linearized gravity from the point of view of a gauge theory. In (3+1)-dimensions our analysis allows to consider linearized gravity in the context of the MacDowell-Mansouri formalism. Our observations may be of particular…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Nieto

We do not yet know how to quantize gravity in 3+1 dimensions, but in lower dimensions we face the opposite problem: many of the approaches originally developed for (3+1)-dimensional gravity can be successfully implemented in 2+1 dimensions,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Carlip

In this paper, we investigate a three-dimensional gravitational model known as Minimal Massive Gravity (MMG), which includes an auxiliary field, using the covariant phase space method. Our analysis reveals the presence of three gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-24 Kang Liu , Xiao-Mei Kuang

The increasing precision of cosmological data provides us with an opportunity to test general relativity (GR) on the largest accessible scales. Parameterizing modified gravity models facilitates the systematic testing of the predictions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Ali Narimani , Douglas Scott

We introduce a novel reformulation of three-dimensional gravity in terms of divergenceless vector frames, inspired by the double copy for Chern-Simons theory. This formulation is on-shell equivalent to conventional 3D gravity and provides a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Maor Ben-Shahar , Francesco Bonechi , Maxim Zabzine

We look at solutions of Minimal Massive Gravity (MMG), a generalisation of Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG) that improves upon its holographic properties. It is shown that generically (in MMG parameter space) all conformally flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Alex S. Arvanitakis

Minimal Massive Gravity (MMG) is an extension of three-dimensional Topologically Massive Gravity that, when formulated about Anti-de Sitter space, accomplishes to solve the tension between bulk and boundary unitarity that other models in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-05 Gaston Giribet , Yerko Vásquez

Three-dimensional gravity coupled to pressureless dust is a field theory with one local degree of freedom. In the canonical framework, the dust-time gauge encodes this physical degree of freedom as a metric function. We find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 Viqar Husain , Shohreh Rahmati , Jonathan Ziprick

We quantize the Einstein gravity in the formalism of weak gravitational fields by using the constrained Hamiltonian method. Special emphasis is given to the 2+1 spacetime dimensional case where a (topological) Chern-Simons term is added to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Barcelos-Neto , T. G. Dargam

We consider a theory of gravity with a hidden extra-dimension and metric-dependent torsion. A set of physically motivated constraints are imposed on the geometry so that the torsion stays confined to the extra-dimension and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Karthik H. Shankar , Anand Balaraman , Kameshwar C. Wali

A variant of the ADT method for the determination of gravitational charges as integrals at infinity is applied to "Chern-Simons-like" theories of 3D gravity, and the result is used to find the mass and angular momentum of the BTZ black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Wout Merbis , Paul K. Townsend

We show that minimal massive 3d gravity (MMG), as well as the topological massive gravity, are particular cases of a more general `minimal massive gravity' theory (with a single massive propagating mode) arising upon spontaneous breaking of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-08 Dmitry Chernyavsky , Nihat Sadik Deger , Dmitri Sorokin

A wide class of three-dimensional gravity models can be put into "Chern-Simons-like" form. We perform a Hamiltonian analysis of the general model and then specialise to Einstein-Cartan Gravity, General Massive Gravity, the recently proposed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-15 Eric A. Bergshoeff , Olaf Hohm , Wout Merbis , Alasdair J. Routh , Paul K. Townsend

We discuss renormalizability of a recently established, massive gravity theory with particular higher derivative terms in three space-time dimensions. It is shown that this massive gravity is certainly renormalizable as well as unitary, so…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-05-29 Ichiro Oda

We consider renormalizability of topologically massive gravity in three space-time dimensions. With a usual parametrization of the metric tensor, we establish the statement that topologically massive gravity is in fact renormalizable. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-08-14 Ichiro Oda

We consider models in which nonrelativistic matter fields interact with gauge fields whose dynamics are governed by the Chern-Simons term. The relevant equations of motion are derived and reduced dimensionally in time or in space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Jackiw , So-Young Pi

Using a first order Chern-Simons-like formulation of gravity we systematically construct higher-derivative extensions of general relativity in three dimensions. The construction ensures that the resulting higher-derivative gravity theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Hamid R. Afshar , Eric A. Bergshoeff , Wout Merbis

We provide a metric-like formulation of the spin-3 gravity in three dimensions. It is shown that the Chern-Simons formulation of the spin-3 gravity can be reformulated as a Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory coupled with the higher-spin…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Zhi-Qiang Guo

A new version of tetrad gravity in globally hyperbolic, asymptotically flat at spatial infinity spacetimes with Cauchy surfaces diffeomorphic to $R^3$ is obtained by using a new parametrization of arbitrary cotetrads to define a set of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Luca Lusanna , Stefano Russo

We study four-dimensional gravity theories that are rendered renormalisable by the inclusion of curvature-squared terms to the usual Einstein action with cosmological constant. By choosing the parameters appropriately, the massive scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-23 H. Lu , C. N. Pope