Published September 15, 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Black holes in pure Lovelock gravities

  • 1. Department of Physics, Kinki University, Higashi-Osaka, Osaka 577-8502 (Japan)
  • 2. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2735, Beijing 100080 (China)

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Lovelock gravity is a fascinating extension of general relativity, whose action consists of dimensionally extended Euler densities. Compared to other higher order derivative gravity theories, Lovelock gravity is attractive since it has a lot of remarkable features such as the fact that there are no more than second order derivatives with respect to the metric in its equations of motion, and that the theory is free of ghosts. Recently, in the study of black strings and black branes in Lovelock gravity, a special class of Lovelock gravity is considered, which is named pure Lovelock gravity, where only one Euler density term exists. In this paper we study black hole solutions in the special class of Lovelock gravity and associated thermodynamic properties. Some interesting features are found, which are quite different from the corresponding ones in general relativity

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
p. 064001-064001.8
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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