Universal features of gravity and higher dimensions
Abstract
We study some universal features of gravity in higher dimensions and by universal we mean a feature that remains true in all dimensions . 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 -vacuum solutions of the Einstein-Lovelock as well as pure Lovelock equation have the same asymptotic limit agreeing with the 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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Cite
@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