Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9867177 | Annals of Physics | 2005 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Recently, Deser, Jackiw and Pi have shown that three-dimensional conformal gravity with a source given by a conformally coupled scalar field admits pp wave solutions. In this paper, we consider this model with a self-interacting potential preserving the conformal structure. A pp wave geometry is also supported by this system and, we show that this model is equivalent to topologically massive gravity with a cosmological constant whose value is given in terms of the potential strength.
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Authors
Eloy Ayón-Beato, Mokhtar Hassaïne,