Pure Lovelock gravity and Chern-Simons theory

P. K. Concha, R. Durka, C. Inostroza, N. Merino, and E. K. Rodríguez
Phys. Rev. D 94, 024055 – Published 28 July 2016
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  • INTRODUCTION
  • Cm ALGEBRAS AND S EXPANSION
  • CHERN-SIMONS GRAVITY AND PURE LOVELOCK…
  • THE HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL PURE LOVELOCK AND…
  • CONCLUSION
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • APPENDICES
    • References

    Abstract

    We explore the possibility of finding pure Lovelock gravity as a particular limit of a Chern-Simons action for a specific expansion of the AdS algebra in odd dimensions. We derive in detail this relation at the level of the action in five and seven dimensions. We provide a general result for higher dimensions and discuss some issues arising from the obtained dynamics.

    • Received 13 April 2016

    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.024055

    © 2016 American Physical Society

    Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

    1. Research Areas
    Alternative gravity theoriesGravity in dimensions other than fourHigher-dimensional field theories
    Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

    Authors & Affiliations

    P. K. Concha1,2,*, R. Durka3,†, C. Inostroza4,‡, N. Merino3,§, and E. K. Rodríguez1,2,¶

    • 1Departamento de Ciencias, Facultad de Artes Liberales y Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Avenida Padre Hurtado 750, Viña del Mar, Chile
    • 2Instituto de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile
    • 3Instituto de Física, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Casilla 4059, Valparaíso, Chile
    • 4Departamento de Física, Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Chile

    • *patillusion@gmail.com
    • †remigiuszdurka@gmail.com
    • ‡c.inostroza@gmail.com
    • §nemerino@gmail.com
    • everodriguezd@gmail.com

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    Vol. 94, Iss. 2 — 15 July 2016

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