A theorem on topologically massive gravity
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🌀 gr-qc
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fieldgravitymassivetopologicallyadmittingallowdeserdimensional
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We show that for three dimensional space-times admitting a hypersurface orthogonal Killing vector field Deser, Jackiw and Templeton's vacuum field equations of topologically massive gravity allow only the trivial flat space-time solution. Thus spin is necessary to support topological mass.
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