Quintic quasi-topological gravity

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2017)066zbMATH Open1378.83058arXiv1702.04676MaRDI QIDQ680679FDOQ680679

Adolfo Cisterna, Mokhtar Hassaïne, Julio Oliva, Luis Guajardo

Publication date: 23 January 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a quintic quasi-topological gravity in five dimensions, i.e. a theory with a Lagrangian containing $mathcal{R}^5$ terms and whose field equations are of second order on spherically (hyperbolic or planar) symmetric spacetimes. These theories have recently received attention since when formulated on asymptotically AdS spacetimes might provide for gravity duals of a broad class of CFTs. For simplicity we focus on five dimensions. We show that this theory fulfils a Birkhoff's Theorem as it is the case in Lovelock gravity and therefore, for generic values of the couplings, there is no s-wave propagating mode. We prove that the spherically symmetric solution is determined by a quintic algebraic polynomial equation which resembles Wheeler's polynomial of Lovelock gravity. For the black hole solutions we compute the temperature, mass and entropy and show that the first law of black holes thermodynamics is fulfilled. Besides of being of fourth order in general, we show that the field equations, when linearized around AdS are of second order, and therefore the theory does not propagate ghosts around this background. Besides the class of theories originally introduced in arXiv:1003.4773 [gr-qc], the general geometric structure of these Lagrangians remains an open problem.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.04676

zbMATH Keywords

black holesclassical theories of gravityLovelock gravityBirkhoff's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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