The central charge in three dimensional anti-de Sitter space

Abstract

This paper collects the various ways of computing the central charge $c=3l/2G$ arising in 3d asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces, in the Chern-Simons formulation. Their similarities and differences are displayed.

9 pages, Latex

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