A theorem on topologically massive gravity

Abstract

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.

published in Classical and Quantum Gravity 13 (1996) L29

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