Friday, August 3, 2012

1208.0038 (Olaf Hohm et al.)

On the Hamiltonian form of 3D massive gravity    [PDF]

Olaf Hohm, Alasdair Routh, Paul K. Townsend, Baocheng Zhang
We present a "Chern-Simons-like" action for the "general massive gravity" model propagating two spin-2 modes with independent masses in three spacetime dimensions (3D), and we use it to find a simple Hamiltonian form of this model. The number of local degrees of freedom, determined by the dimension of the physical phase space, agrees with a linearized analysis except in some limits, in particular that yielding "new topologically massive gravity", which therefore suffers from a linearization instability.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0038

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