Universal Kounterterms in Lovelock AdS gravity

✍ Scribed by G. Kofinas; R. Olea

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 163 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.200810565

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We show the universal form of the boundary term (Kounterterm series) which regularizes the Euclidean action and background‐independent definition of conserved quantities for any Lovelock gravity theory with AdS asymptotics (including Einstein‐Hilbert and Einstein‐Gauss‐Bonnet). We discuss on the connection of this procedure to the existence of topological invariants and Chern‐Simons forms in the corresponding dimensions.