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Canonical Structure of Higher Derivative Gravity in 3D

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-05-19 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We give an explicitly gauge invariant canonical analysis of linearized quadratic gravity theories in three dimensions for both flat and de-Sitter backgrounds. In flat backgrounds, we also study the effects of gravitational Chern-Simons term, and include the sources, compute the weak field limit as well as scattering between spinning massive particles.

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@article{arxiv.1002.3778,
  title  = {Canonical Structure of Higher Derivative Gravity in 3D},
  author = {Ibrahim Gullu and Tahsin Cagri Sisman and Bayram Tekin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.3778},
  year   = {2010}
}

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14 pages, references added, version to appear in PRD

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