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Stress-Energy Tensors for Higher Dimensional Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We calculate, in the context of higher dimensional gravity, the stress-energy tensor and Weyl anomaly associated with anti-de Sitter and anti-de Sitter black hole solutions. The boundary counter-term method is used to regularize the action and the resulting stress-energy tensor yields both the correct black hole energies as well as a vacuum energy contribution which is interpreted as a Casimir energy. This calculation is done up to d = 8 (d being the boundary dimension). We confirm some results for d < 8 as well as comment on some new results (some of which are relevant to (2,0) theory). All results for d=8 are new.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9911060,
  title  = {Stress-Energy Tensors for Higher Dimensional Gravity},
  author = {A. DeBenedictis and K. S. Viswanathan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9911060},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

12 pages. Uses AMS package. No figures