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Starting from the Siklos waves in general relativity with a cosmological constant, interpreted as gravitational waves on the anti-de Sitter background, a new class of exact torsion waves is constructed in the framework of three-dimensional gravity with propagating torsion. In the asymptotic limit, the geometry of torsion waves takes the anti-de Sitter form. In the sector with massless torsion modes, we found a set of asymptotic conditions that leads to the conformal asymptotic symmetry.
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Blagojević, M., Cvetković, B. Siklos waves with torsion in 3D. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 141 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2014)141
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