Consistent boundary conditions for cosmological topologically massive gravity at the chiral point
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We show that cosmological topologically massive gravity at the chiral point allows not only Brown–Henneaux boundary conditions as consistent boundary conditions, but slightly more general ones which encompass the logarithmic primary found in 0805.2610 as well as all its descendants. e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Cosmological topologically massive gravity [1] (CTMG) is a 3-dimensional theory of gravity that exhibits gravitons [2,3] and black holes [4]. With the sign conventions of [5] its action is given by
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