Boundary terms in Lovelock gravity from dimensionally continued Chern-Simons forms
| Autor: | Theo Verwimp |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Physics
Gravity (chemistry) Chern–Simons theory Boundary (topology) FOS: Physical sciences Statistical and Nonlinear Physics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology law.invention Dimension (vector space) law Manifold (fluid mechanics) Atiyah–Singer index theorem Mathematical Physics Mathematical physics |
| Popis: | 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. 10 pages, typo in equation (4.23) of the original publication was corrected |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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