Counterterms and dual holographic anomalies in CS gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
The holographic Weyl anomaly associated to Chern-Simons gravity in 2n+1 dimensions is proportional to the Euler term in 2n dimensions, with no contributions from the Weyl tensor. We compute the holographic energy-momentum tensor associated to Chern-Simons gravity directly from the action, in an arbitrary odd-dimensional spacetime. We show, in particular, that the counterterms rendering the action finite contain only terms of the Lovelock type.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0509179,
title = {Counterterms and dual holographic anomalies in CS gravity},
author = {Maximo Banados and Rodrigo Olea and Stefan Theisen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0509179},
year = {2009}
}
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