Instability in cosmological topologically massive gravity at the chiral point

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Grumiller, Daniel ^a   Johansson, Niklas ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Classical theories of gravity; Models of quantum gravity

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749144872     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/134     Document Type: Article

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