Two gravitationally Chern-Simons terms are too many
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✦ hep-th
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massivechern-simonsgravityspin-2termtopologicaltriadicaction
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It is shown that topological massive gravity augmented by the triadic gravitational Chern-Simons first order term is a curved a pure spin-2 action. This model contains two massive spin-2 excitations. However, since its light-front energy is not semidefinite positive, this double CS-action does not have any physical relevance.In other words, topological massive gravity cannot be spontaneously broken down by the presence of the triadic CS term.
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