Simple counterterms for asymptotically AdS spacetimes in Lovelock gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2011-12-01 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Although gravitational actions diverge in asymptotically AdS spacetimes, boundary counterterms can be added in order to cancel out those divergences; such counterterms are known in general to third order in the Riemann tensor for the Einstein-Hilbert action. Considering foliations of AdS with an boundary, we discuss a simple algorithm which we use to generate counterterms up to sixth order in the Riemann tensor, for the Einstein-Hilbert, Gauss-Bonnet and third-order-Lovelock Lagrangians. We also comment on other theories such as gravity.
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@article{arxiv.1107.1250,
title = {Simple counterterms for asymptotically AdS spacetimes in Lovelock gravity},
author = {Alexandre Yale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.1250},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
16 pages. v3: title and presentation updated to match published version. Explicit expressions for 4th-order Lovelock Lagrangians and Gibbons-Hawking terms can be found in v2