Causality in 3D massive gravity theories

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2017-05-12

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Edelstein, Jose D.
Giribet, Gaston
Gomez, Carolina
Kilicarslan, Ercan
Leoni, Matias
Tekin, Bayram

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We study the constraints coming from the local causality requirement in various 2 + 1 dimensional dynamical theories of gravity. In topologically massive gravity, with a single parity noninvariant massive degree of freedom, and in new massive gravity, with two massive spin-2 degrees of freedom, causality and unitarity are compatible with each other and both require the Newton's constant to be negative. In their extensions, such as the Born-Infeld gravity and the minimal massive gravity the situation is similar and quite different from their higher dimensional counterparts, such as quadratic (e.g., Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet) or cubic theories, where causality and unitarity are in conflict. We study the problem both in asymptotically flat and asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35821

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.95.104016

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J. D. Edelstein, G. Giribet, C. Gomez, E. Kilicarslan, M. Leoni, and B. Tekin, “Causality in 3D massive gravity theories,” PHYSICAL REVIEW D, pp. 0–0, 2017, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/35821.