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Gravitational Chern-Simons terms and black hole entropy. Global aspects

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We discuss the topological and global gauge properties of the formula for a black hole entropy due to a purely gravitational Chern-Simons term. We study under what topological and geometrical conditions this formula is well-defined. To this end we have to analyze the global properties of the Chern-Simons term itself and the quantization of its coupling. We show that in some cases the coupling quantization may interfere with the well-definiteness of the entropy formula.

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@article{arxiv.1207.6969,
  title  = {Gravitational Chern-Simons terms and black hole entropy. Global aspects},
  author = {L. Bonora and M. Cvitan and P. Dominis Prester and S. Pallua and I. Smolic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1207.6969},
  year   = {2015}
}

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37 pages, a few comments and references added