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Two gravitationally Chern-Simons terms are too many

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

It is shown that topological massive gravity augmented by the triadic gravitational Chern-Simons first order term is a curved a pure spin-2 action. This model contains two massive spin-2 excitations. However, since its light-front energy is not semidefinite positive, this double CS-action does not have any physical relevance.In other words, topological massive gravity cannot be spontaneously broken down by the presence of the triadic CS term.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9309149,
  title  = {Two gravitationally Chern-Simons terms are too many},
  author = {C. Aragone and Pio J. Arias and A. Khoudeir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9309149},
  year   = {2007}
}

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