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On semi-classical topologically massive gravity in three dimensions

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In this paper, we compute the Green function, one-loop effective action and trace anomaly for the scalar fields coupled to the three-dimensional topologically massive gravitational vacuum (especially CSI Kundt vacuum) via standard quantum field theoretical methods.

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This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11031005 and by the Wu Wen Tsun Key Laboratory of Mathematics at USTC of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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  1. Wu Wen Tsun Key Laboratory of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science, Hefei, 230026, China

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  2. School of Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

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Hu, S., Hu, Z. On semi-classical topologically massive gravity in three dimensions. Eur. Phys. J. C 73, 2458 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2458-y

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