Chern-Simons-like Gravity Theories
High Energy Physics - Theory
2014-12-15 v2
Abstract
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 Zwei-Dreibein Gravity and a further parity violating generalisation combining the latter two.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.1688,
title = {Chern-Simons-like Gravity Theories},
author = {Eric A. Bergshoeff and Olaf Hohm and Wout Merbis and Alasdair J. Routh and Paul K. Townsend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1688},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
20 pages, prepared for the Proceedings of the Seventh Aegean Summer School, "Beyond Einstein's theory of gravity", Paros, Greece, September 2013. Version 2 has changed title to accord with title of published version; otherwise only change is an update of references