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  "abstract": "Three-dimensional Einstein gravity has no local degrees of freedom, yet retains rich global and black-hole physics. Adding a scalar normally spoils this. We show that closure of three-dimensional Horndeski gravity under disformal field redefinitions selects a square-root curvature interaction. A nonlinear analysis finds no local bulk modes on regular branches, while an independent Hamiltonian analysis confirms the result on the timelike-gradient branch. This extends the no-local-bulk-dynamics paradigm beyond pure Einstein gravity and motivates studying its boundary and global sectors.",
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  "title": "Disformal Closure Selects 3D Scalar-Tensor Gravity without Local Bulk Modes",
  "title_text": "Disformal Closure Selects 3D Scalar-Tensor Gravity without Local Bulk Modes",
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