Boundary terms in Lovelock gravity from dimensionally continued Chern-Simons forms
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2021-09-01 v1
Abstract
Boundary terms for Lovelock gravity are obtained by calculating in arbitrary dimension the index theorem for the de Rham complex of a manifold with nonempty boundary.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.10614,
title = {Boundary terms in Lovelock gravity from dimensionally continued Chern-Simons forms},
author = {Theo Verwimp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10614},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
10 pages, typo in equation (4.23) of the original publication was corrected