Gravitational Chern-Simons and the adiabatic limit

DOI10.1063/1.3528667MaRDI QIDQ5255486zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brendan McLellan

Publication date 15 June 2015

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2909

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Eta-invariants, Chern-Simons invariants (58J28) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

Abstract: We compute the gravitational Chern-Simons term explicitly for an adiabatic family of metrics using standard methods in general relativity. We use the fact that our base three-manifold is a quasi-regular K-contact manifold heavily in this computation. Our key observation is that this geometric assumption corresponds exactly to a Kaluza-Klein Ansatz for the metric tensor on our three manifold, which allows us to translate our problem into the language of general relativity. Similar computations have been performed in a paper of Guralnik, Iorio, Jackiw and Pi (2003), although not in the adiabatic context.

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