Covariant Noether Charge for Higher Dimensional Chern-Simons Terms
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-09-13 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We construct a manifestly covariant differential Noether charge for theories with Chern-Simons terms in higher dimensional spacetimes. This is in contrast to Tachikawa's extension of the standard Lee-Iyer-Wald formalism which results in a non-covariant differential Noether charge for Chern-Simons terms. On a bifurcation surface, our differential Noether charge integrates to the Wald-like entropy formula proposed by Tachikawa in arXiv:hep-th/0611141.
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@article{arxiv.1407.6364,
title = {Covariant Noether Charge for Higher Dimensional Chern-Simons Terms},
author = {Tatsuo Azeyanagi and R. Loganayagam and Gim Seng Ng and Maria J. Rodriguez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.6364},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
45 pages; v2: minor corrections and JHEP version