Classification of Six Derivative Lagrangians of Gravity and Static Spherically Symmetric Solutions

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2010-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/1004.0737v3

Phys.Rev.D82:124030,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

16 pages, no figures, V2: The analogy between the BHT new massive gravity Lagrangian and the special cubic invariant in five d

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.124030

We classify all the six derivative Lagrangians of gravity, whose traced field equations are of second or third order, in arbitrary dimensions. In the former case, the Lagrangian in dimensions greater than six, reduces to an arbitrary linear combination of the six dimensional Euler density and the two linearly independent cubic Weyl invariants. In five dimensions, besides the independent cubic Weyl invariant, we obtain an interesting cubic combination, whose field equations for static spherically symmetric spacetimes are of second order. In the later case, in arbitrary dimensions we obtain two combinations, which in dimension three, are equivalent to the complete contraction of two Cotton tensors. Moreover, we also recover all the conformal anomalies in six dimensions. Finally, we present some static, spherically symmetric solutions for these Lagrangians.

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