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Dimensionally Reduced Gravitational Chern-Simons Term and its Kink

G. Guralnik, A. Iorio, R. Jackiw, S. -Y. Pi

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0305117

Abstract

When the gravitational Chern-Simons term is reduced from 3 to 2 dimensions, the lower dimensional theory supports a symmetry breaking solution and an associated kink. Kinks in general relativity bear a close relation to flat space kinks, governed by identical potentials.

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