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On Complexity for Higher Derivative Gravities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-05-30 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

Using "complexity=action" proposal we study complexity growth of certain gravitational theories containing higher derivative terms. These include critical gravity in diverse dimensions. One observes that the complexity growth for neutral black holes saturates the proposed bound when the results are written in terms of physical quantities of the model. We will also study effects of shock wave to the complexity growth where we find that the presence of massive spin-2 mode slows down the rate of growth.

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@article{arxiv.1702.06796,
  title  = {On Complexity for Higher Derivative Gravities},
  author = {Mohsen Alishahiha and Amin Faraji Astaneh and Ali Naseh and M. H. Vahidinia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.06796},
  year   = {2017}
}

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18 pages, 3 figures, journal version

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