THE LOVELOCK BLACK HOLES

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Publication:3607522

DOI10.1142/S0217732308027497zbMATH Open1159.83301arXiv0805.3575OpenAlexW2106883141MaRDI QIDQ3607522FDOQ3607522


Authors: Cecilia Garraffo, G. Giribet Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 2 March 2009

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Lovelock theory is a natural extension of Einstein theory of gravity to higher dimensions, and it is of great interest in theoretical physics as it describes a wide class of models. In particular, it describes string theory inspired ultraviolet corrections to Einstein-Hilbert action, while admits the Einstein general relativiy and the so called Chern-Simons theories of gravity as particular cases. Recently, five-dimensional Lovelock theory has been considered in the literature as a working example to illustrate the effects of including higher-curvature terms in the context of AdS/CFT correspondence. Here, we give an introduction to the black hole solutions of Lovelock theory and analyze their most important properties. These solutions can be regarded as generalizations of the Boulware-Deser solution of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, which we discuss in detail here. We briefly discuss some recent progress in understading these and other solutions, like topological black holes that represent black branes of the theory, and vacuum thin-shell wormhole-like geometries that connect two different asymptotically de-Sitter spaces. We also make some comments on solutions with time-like naked singularities.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3575




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