Exotic massive gravity: Causality and a Birkhoff-like theorem

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KILIÇARSLAN, ERCAN
Tekin, Bayram

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We study the local causality issue via the Shapiro time-delay computations in the on-shell consistent exotic massive gravity in three dimensions. The theory shows time delay as opposed to time advance despite having a ghost at the linearized level both for asymptotically flat and anti-de Sitter spacetimes. We also prove a Birkhoff-like theorem: any solution with a hypersurface orthogonal non-null Killing vector field is conformally flat; and we find some exact solutions.

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42012

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D

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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.044035

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E. KILIÇARSLAN and B. Tekin, “Exotic massive gravity: Causality and a Birkhoff-like theorem,” PHYSICAL REVIEW D, pp. 0–0, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42012.