From Lovelock to Horndeski's generalised scalar-tensor theory
Abstract
We review and discuss some recent progress in Lovelock and Horndeski theories modifying Einstein's General Relativity. Using as our guide the uniqueness properties of these modified gravity theories we then discuss how Kaluza-Klein reduction of Lovelock theory can lead to effective scalar-tensor actions including several important terms of Horndeski theory. We show how this can be put to practical use by mapping analytic black hole solutions of one theory to the other. We then elaborate on the subset of Horndeski theory that has self-tuning properties and review a generic method giving scalar-tensor black hole solutions.
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@article{arxiv.1405.1612,
title = {From Lovelock to Horndeski's generalised scalar-tensor theory},
author = {Christos Charmousis},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1612},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Lecture notes from the 7th Aegean summer school "Beyond Einstein's theory of gravity". No figures, 31 pages, some references and remarks added, some of the typos present corrected