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Generalized entropy and higher derivative Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We derive an extension of the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription for curvature squared theories of gravity in the bulk, and comment on a prescription for more general theories. This results in a new entangling functional, that contains a correction to Wald's entropy. The new term is quadratic in the extrinsic curvature. The coefficient of this correction is a second derivative of the lagrangian with respect to the Riemann tensor. For Gauss-Bonnet gravity, the new functional reduces to Jacobson-Myers'.

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@article{arxiv.1310.6659,
  title  = {Generalized entropy and higher derivative Gravity},
  author = {Joan Camps},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6659},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

v4: further sign corrections in sec 2, main conclusions unaltered. Added comments comparing to Iyer-Wald's in section 5. Version to appear in JHEP

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