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Universal features of gravity and higher dimensions

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-05-06 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study some universal features of gravity in higher dimensions and by universal we mean a feature that remains true in all dimensions 4\geq4. They include: (a) the gravitational dynamics always follows from the Bianchi derivative of a homogeneous polynomial in Riemann curvature and it thereby characterizes the Lovelock polynomial action, (b) all the Λ\Lambda-vacuum solutions of the Einstein-Lovelock as well as pure Lovelock equation have the same asymptotic limit agreeing with the dd dimensional Einstein solution and (c) gravity inside a uniform density sphere is independent of the spacetime dimension and it is always given by the Schwarzschild interior solution.

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@article{arxiv.1105.0988,
  title  = {Universal features of gravity and higher dimensions},
  author = {Naresh Dadhich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.0988},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

7 pages, revtex, Plenary lecture in 13th Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics held on Oct. 23-31, 2010 at Antalaya, Turkey, To appear in Proceedings of the Conference

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