Null boundary terms for Lanczos–Lovelock gravity

Sumanta Chakraborty, Krishnamohan Parattu

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Abstract

We derive boundary terms appropriate for the general Lanczos–Lovelock action on a null boundary, when Dirichlet boundary conditions are imposed. We believe that these boundary terms have been derived for the first time in the literature. In this derivation, we rely only on the structure of the boundary variation of the action for Lanczos–Lovelock gravity. We also provide the null boundary term for Gauss–Bonnet gravity separately.

Original languageEnglish
Article number23
JournalGeneral Relativity and Gravitation
Volume51
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2019

Keywords

  • Boundary terms
  • Lanczos–Lovelock gravity
  • Null surface

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