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Wald's gravitational entropy for ghost-free, infinite derivative theories of Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-27 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper, we demonstrate that the Wald's entropy for any spherically symmetric blackhole within an infinite derivative theory of gravity is determined solely by the area law. Thus, the infrared behaviour of gravity is captured by the Einstein-Hilbert term, provided that the massless graviton remains the only propagating degree of freedom in the spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.1503.05568,
  title  = {Wald's gravitational entropy for ghost-free, infinite derivative theories of Gravity},
  author = {Aindriú Conroy and Anupam Mazumdar and Ali Teimouri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.05568},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages