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Near horizon gravitational charges

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-21 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, we study the near horizon symmetry and gravitational charges in the Newman-Penrose formalism. In particular we investigate the effect from topological terms. We find that the Pontryagin term and Gauss-Bonnet term have significant influence on the near horizon charges and bring interesting novel features. We show that the gravitational charge derived from a general class of topological terms including the Pontryagin term and Gauss-Bonnet term can be obtained from the ambiguities of the symplectic potential.

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@article{arxiv.2201.10308,
  title  = {Near horizon gravitational charges},
  author = {Hai-Shan Liu and Pujian Mao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.10308},
  year   = {2022}
}

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v3: minor typos fixed