The Lovelock gravity in the critical spacetime dimension

Details The Lovelock gravity in the critical spacetime dimension The Lovelock gravity in the critical spacetime dimension

2012-02-21

arxiv.org/abs/1202.4575v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

3 pages, revised version with two minor changes and an author added. Accepted for publication in Physics Letters B

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It is well known that the vacuum in the Einstein gravity, which is linear in the Riemann curvature, is trivial in the critical (2+1=3) dimension because vacuum solution is flat. It turns out that this is true in general for any odd critical $d=2n+1$ dimension where $n$ is the degree of homogeneous polynomial in Riemann defining its higher order analogue whose trace is the nth order Lovelock polynomial. This is the "curvature" for nth order pure Lovelock gravity as the trace of its Bianchi derivative gives the corresponding analogue of the Einstein tensor \cite{bianchi}. Thus the vacuum in the pure Lovelock gravity is always trivial in the odd critical (2n+1) dimension which means it is pure Lovelock flat but it is not Riemann flat unless $n=1$ and then it describes a field of a global monopole. Further by adding Lambda we obtain the Lovelock analogue of the BTZ black hole.

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