%0 Journal Article
%T A theorem on topologically massive gravity
%A A. N. Aliev
%A Y. Nutku
%J Physics
%D 1998
%I arXiv
%R 10.1088/0264-9381/13/3/001
%X We show that for three dimensional space-times admitting a hypersurface orthogonal Killing vector field Deser, Jackiw and Templeton's vacuum field equations of topologically massive gravity allow only the trivial flat space-time solution. Thus spin is necessary to support topological mass.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812089v1