The black holes of topologically massive gravity

Karim Ait Moussa, Gerard Clement, Cedric Leygnac

Published 2003-03-11, updated 2003-10-24Version 2

We show that an analytical continuation of the Vuorio solution to three-dimensional topologically massive gravity leads to a two-parameter family of black hole solutions, which are geodesically complete and causally regular within a certain parameter range. No observers can remain static in these spacetimes. We discuss their global structure, and evaluate their mass, angular momentum, and entropy, which satisfy a slightly modified form of the first law of thermodynamics.