Renormalization of the Einstein-Hilbert action

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2020)064zbMATH Open1437.83015arXiv1911.04178MaRDI QIDQ779334FDOQ779334

Andreas Gustavsson

Publication date: 21 July 2020

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

Abstract: We examine how the Einstein-Hilbert action is renormalized by adding the usual counterterms and additional corner counterterms when the boundary surface has corners. A bulk geometry asymptotic to $H^{d+1}$ can have boundaries $S^{k}imes{H}^{d-k}$ and corners for $0leqk<d$. We show that the conformal anomaly when $d$ is even is independent of $k$. When $d$ is odd the renormalized action is a finite term that we show is independent of $k$ when $k$ is also odd. When $k$ is even we were unable to extract the finite term using the counterterm method and we address this problem using instead the Kounterterm method. We also compute the mass of a two-charged black hole in AdS${}_7$ and show that background subtraction agrees with counterterm renormalization only if we use the infinite series expansion for the counterterm.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.04178

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryclassical theories of gravityAdS-CFT correspondenceblack holes in string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35)

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