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We construct quartic quasitopological gravity, a theory of gravity containing terms quartic in the curvature that yields second order differential equations in the spherically symmetric case. Up to a term proportional to the quartic term in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 M. H. Dehghani , A. Bazrafshan , R. B. Mann , M. R. Mehdizadeh , M. Ghanaatian , M. H. Vahidinia

In this paper, we introduce the counterterms that remove the non-logarithmic divergences of the action in third order Lovelock gravity for static spacetimes. We do this by defining the cosmological constant in such a way that the asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-30 M. R. Mehdizadeh , M. H. Dehghani , M. Kord Zangeneh

We establish a framework to construct spherically symmetric and static solutions in $f(R)$ gravity coupled with nonlinear electromagnetic fields. We present two new specific solutions and discuss the energy conditions. We calculate some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Yongben Shi , Rong-Jia Yang

We evaluate the quantum gravity partition function that counts the dimension of the Hilbert space of a simply connected spatial region of fixed proper volume in the context of Lovelock gravity, generalizing the results for Einstein gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-23 Mengqi Lu , Robert B. Mann

We study dynamical structure of Pure Lovelock gravity in spacetime dimensions higher than four using the Hamiltonian formalism. The action consists of cosmological constant and a single higher-order polynomial in the Riemann tensor.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Naresh Dadhich , Remigiusz Durka , Nelson Merino , Olivera Miskovic

We study entanglement entropies of simply connected surfaces in field theories dual to Lovelock gravities. We consider Gauss-Bonnet and cubic Lovelock gravities in detail. In the conformal case the logarithmic terms in the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-13 Jan de Boer , Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev

We investigate the topological black holes in a special class of Lovelock gravity. In the odd dimensions, the action is the Chern-Simons form for the anti-de Sitter group. In the even dimensions, it is the Euler density constructed with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-09 Rong-Gen Cai , Kwang-Sup Soh

We study holographic c-theorems based on timelike entanglement entropy and show that a timelike c-function captures irreversible renormalization group (RG) flow. We demonstrate that timelike c-functions are applicable to both relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-19 Dimitrios Giataganas

We review the geometric definition of C-function in the context of field theories that admit a holographic gravity dual.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Alvarez , C. Gomez

We present a class of exact analytic and static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions in the semi-classical Einstein equations with Weyl anomaly. The solutions have two branches, one is asymptotically flat and the other asymptotically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-30 Rong-Gen Cai , Li-Ming Cao , Nobuyoshi Ohta

We derive static spherically symmetric regular black holes as vacuum solutions to purely gravitational theories in four dimensions. To that end, we construct four-dimensional non-polynomial gravities starting from subclasses of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-20 Johanna Borissova , Raúl Carballo-Rubio

In AdS/CFT, the holographic Weyl anomaly computation relates the a-anomaly coefficient to the properties of the bulk action at the UV fixed point. This universal behavior suggests the possibility of a holographic c-theorem for the a-anomaly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 James T. Liu , Wafic Sabra , Zhichen Zhao

We study quasi-stationary physical process for black holes within the context of Lanczos-Lovelock gravity. We show that the Wald entropy of stationary black holes in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity monotonically increases for quasi-stationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-27 Sanved Kolekar , T. Padmanabhan , Sudipta Sarkar

A $(3+1)$-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity has been recently formulated in [D. Glavan and C. Lin, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 124}, 081301 (2020)] which is different from the pure Einstein theory, i.e., bypasses the Lovelock's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-21 R. A. Konoplya , A. Zhidenko

We present a new class of asymptotically flat charge static solutions in third order Lovelock gravity. These solutions present black hole solutions with two inner and outer event horizons, extreme black holes or naked singularities provided…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 M. H. Dehghani , M. Shamirzaie

Analysis of black hole spacetimes requires study of the motion of particles and light in these spacetimes. Here exact solutions of the geodesic equations are the means of choice. Numerous interesting black hole spacetimes have been analyzed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-14 Saskia Grunau , Jutta Kunz

We construct the quartic version of generalized quasi-topological gravity, which was recently constructed to cubic order in arXiv: 1703.01631. This class of theories includes Lovelock gravity and a known form of quartic quasi-topological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Jamil Ahmed , Robie A. Hennigar , Robert B. Mann , Mozhgan Mir

We obtain rotating black hole metric for higher dimensional Einstein and pure Lovelock gravity by employing two independent and well motivated methods. One is based on the principle of incorporation of Newtonian acceleration for timelike…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-27 Naresh Dadhich , Sushant G. Ghosh

This paper studies a class of $D=n+2(\ge 6)$ dimensional solutions to Lovelock gravity that is described by the warped product of a two-dimensional Lorentzian metric and an $n$-dimensional Einstein space. Assuming that the angular part of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-27 Seiju Ohashi , Masato Nozawa

In the context of the gauge/gravity duality, using the proposed candidate $c$-function, which is derived from the entanglement entropy of a strip-shaped region, we investigate the RG flow for $d+1$-dimensional quantum field theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-20 Mostafa Ghasemi , Shahrokh Parvizi