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We analyze the asymptotic solutions of Chiral Gravity (Topologically Massive Gravity at μℓ= 1 with Brown-Henneaux boundary conditions) focusing on non-Einstein metrics. A class of such solutions admits curvature singularities in the interior which are reflected as singularities of the corresponding linear solutions. A non-linear solution is found exactly. The back-reaction induces a repulsion of geodesics and a shielding of the singularity by an event horizon but also introduces closed timelike curves.
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Compère, G., de Buyl, S. & Detournay, S. Non-Einstein geometries in chiral gravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 42 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2010)042
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