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Algebra i Analiz, 2005 Volume 17, Issue 1, Pages 183–189 (Mi aa650)
Research Papers

A kink in a funny place

R. Jackiw

Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Abstract: When the 3-dimensional gravitational Chern–Simons term is reduced to two dimensions, a dilaton-like gravity theory emerges. Its solutions involve kinks, which therefore describe 3-dimensional, conformally flat spaces.

Received: 04.10.2004

Language: English


 English version: St. Petersburg Mathematical Journal, 2006, 17:1, 137–142

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