Structure of Lanczos-Lovelock Lagrangians in critical dimensions

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1549-1570

  Yale, Alexandre ^a,b   Padmanabhan, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

Author keywords

Chern Simons term; Critical dimension; Gravitational action; Lanczos Lovelock action

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955762149     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-011-1146-1     Document Type: Article

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