Zwei-dreibein gravity: a two-frame-field model of 3D massive gravity

Phys Rev Lett. 2013 Sep 13;111(11):111102. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.111102. Epub 2013 Sep 11.

Abstract

We present a generally covariant and parity-invariant two-frame field ("zwei-dreibein") action for gravity in three space-time dimensions that propagates two massive spin-2 modes, unitarily, and we use Hamiltonian methods to confirm the absence of unphysical degrees of freedom. We show how zwei-dreibein gravity unifies previous "3D massive gravity" models and extends them, in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, to allow for a positive central charge consistent with bulk unitarity.