We present an alternative to Topologically Massive Gravity (TMG) with the same "minimal" bulk properties; i.e. a single local degree of freedom that is realized as a massive graviton in linearization about an anti-de Sitter (AdS) vacuum. However, in contrast to TMG, the new "minimal massive gravity" has both a positive energy graviton and positive central charges for the asymptotic AdS-boundary conformal algebra.
A wide class of three-dimensional gravity models can be put into "Chern-Simons-like" form. We perform a Hamiltonian analysis of the general model and then specialise to Einstein-Cartan Gravity, General Massive Gravity, the recently proposed Zwei-Dreibein Gravity and a further parity-violating generalisation combining the latter two.
The "Minimal Massive Gravity" (MMG) model of massive gravity in three spacetime dimensions (which has the same anti-de Sitter (AdS) bulk properties as "Topologically Massive Gravity" but improved boundary properties) is coupled to matter. Consistency requires a particular matter source tensor, which is quadratic in the stress tensor. The consequences are explored for an ideal fluid in the context of asymptotically de-Sitter (dS) cosmological solutions, which bounce smoothly from contraction to expansion. Various vacuum solutions are also found, including warped (A)dS, and (for special values of parameters) static black holes and an (A)dS 2 × S 1 vacuum.
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.Comment: 25 pages, minor corrections plus extended discussion in v
We construct O(D, D) invariant actions for the bosonic string and RNS superstring, using Hamiltonian methods and ideas from double field theory. In this framework the doubled coordinates of double field theory appear as coordinates on phase space and T-duality becomes a canonical transformation. Requiring the algebra of constraints to close leads to the section condition, which splits the phase space coordinates into spacetime coordinates and momenta.
In the (super)twistor formulation of massless (super)particle mechanics, the
mass-shell constraint is replaced by a "spin-shell" constraint from which the
spin content can be read off. We extend this formalism to massive
(super)particles (with N-extended spacetime supersymmetry) in three and four
space-time dimensions, explaining how the spin-shell constraints are related to
spin, and we use it to prove equivalence of the massive N=1 and BPS-saturated
N=2 superparticle actions. We also find the supertwistor form of the action for
"spinning particles" with N-extended worldline supersymmetry, massless in four
dimensions and massive in three dimensions, and we show how this simplifies
special features of the N=2 case.Comment: 41 pages. v2 has many additional references, and more details of
"hidden" supersymmetries of massive superparticle actions. New format in v3,
which corrects typos and includes alternative massive 4D superparticle action
with only first-class constraint
The massive six-dimensional (6D) superparticle with manifest (n,0) supersymmetry is shown to have a supertwistor formulation in which its "hidden" (0,n) supersymmetry is also manifest. The mass-shell constraint is replaced by Spin (5) spin-shell constraints which imply that the quantum superparticle has zero superspin; for n=1 it propagates the 6D Proca supermultiplet.
Consistency of Einstein's gravitational field equation G µν ∝ T µν imposes a "conservation condition" on the T -tensor that is satisfied by (i) matter stress tensors, as a consequence of the matter equations of motion, and (ii) identically by certain other tensors, such as the metric tensor. However, there is a third way, overlooked until now because it implies a "nongeometrical" action: one not constructed from the metric and its derivatives alone. The new possibility is exemplified by the 3D "minimal massive gravity" model, which resolves the "bulk vs boundary" unitarity problem of topologically massive gravity with anti-de Sitter asymptotics. Although all known examples of the third way are in three spacetime dimensions, the idea is general and could, in principle, apply to higher-dimensional theories.
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