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Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions
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A particular higher-derivative extension of the Einstein-Hilbert action in three spacetime dimensions is shown to be equivalent at the linearized level to the (unitary) Pauli-Fierz action for a massive spin-2 field. A more general model, which also includes "topologically-massive" gravity as a special case, propagates the two spin-2 helicity states with different masses. We discuss the extension to massive N-extended supergravity, and we present a "cosmological" extension that admits an anti-de Sitter vacuum.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bergshoeff, E. A., Hohm, O., & Townsend, P. K.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2009-05-21
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 20
- Pages
- 201301-201301
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2009437393
- Cited by
- 850
- References
- 17
- FWCI
- 44.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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