Higher curvature Lagrangians, conformal symmetry and microscopic entropy of Killing horizons

DOI10.1016/j.physletb.2003.07.075zbMath1094.81539arXivhep-th/0306021MaRDI QIDQ1408016

D. Massart

Publication date: 14 September 2003

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0306021

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditions; Virasoro algebra; Hamiltonian eigenvalue

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

81T20: Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds

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