Linearization instability of chiral gravity

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Altas E., TEKİN B.

PHYSICAL REVIEW D, cilt.97, sa.12, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 97 Sayı: 12
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1103/physrevd.97.124068
  • Dergi Adı: PHYSICAL REVIEW D
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Carrying out an analysis of the constraints and their linearizations on a spacelike hypersurface, we show that topologically massive gravity has a linearization instability at the chiral gravity limit about AdS(3). We also calculate the symplectic structure for all the known perturbative modes (including the log-mode) for the linearized field equations and find it to be degenerate (noninvertible); hence, these modes do not approximate exact solutions and so do not belong to the linearized phase space of the theory. Naive perturbation theory fails: the linearized field equations are necessary but not sufficient in finding viable linearized solutions. This has important consequences for both classical and possible quantum versions of the theory.