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arxiv: 0912.0708 · v3 · submitted 2009-12-03 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th

Circular Symmetry in Topologically Massive Gravity

classification 🌀 gr-qc hep-th
keywords circularsymmetrycompactlyconcretelycottondecouplingeinsteingeneralize
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We re-derive, compactly, a TMG decoupling theorem: source-free TMG separates into its Einstein and Cotton sectors for spaces with a hypersurface-orthogonal Killing vector, here concretely for circular symmetry. We can then generalize it to include matter, which is necessarily null.

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