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] (...

Analyses of the relative motion using hotspot tracks, age progressions and plate circuits, and of the absolute motion using paleolatitude data indicate that three major long-lived surface hotspots geographically within a very low velocity province (VLVP) at the base of the Earth's mantle, Tristan, Marion and Kerguelen, exhibit small relative motions (b9 mm/yr) in the past 80 Ma. The geochemical...

The discovery of a phase transition in Mg-rich perovskite (Pv) to a post-perovskite (pPv) phase at lower mantle depths and its relationship to D′′, lower mantle heterogeneity and iron content prompted an investigation of the relative importance of lower mantle compositional and temperature fluctuations in creating topographic undulations on mixed phase regions. Above the transition, Mgrich Pv m...

In this note we study the properties of linearized gravitational excitations in the new massive gravity theory in asymptotically AdS3 spacetime and find that there is also a critical point for the mass parameter at which massive gravitons become massless as in topological massive gravity in AdS3. However, at this critical point in the new massive gravity the energy of all branches of highest we...

In this note we study the properties of linearized gravitational excitations in the new massive gravity theory in asymptotically AdS3 spacetime and find that there is also a critical point for the mass parameter at which massive gravitons become massless as in topological massive gravity in AdS3. However, at this critical point in the new massive gravity the energy of all branches of highest we...

In the central part of Fennoscandia, the crust is currently rising, because of the delayed response of the viscous mantle to melting of the Late Pleistocene ice sheet. This process, called Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA), causes a negative anomaly in the present-day static gravity field as isostatic equilibrium has not been reached yet. Several studies have tried to use this anomaly as a con...

In this note we study the properties of linearized gravitational excitations in the new massive gravity theory in asymptotically AdS3 spacetime and find that there is also a critical point for the mass parameter at which massive gravitons become massless as in topological massive gravity in AdS3. However, at this critical point in the new massive gravity the energy of all branches of highest we...