English

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

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