Lovelock gravity, black holes and holography

2015/09/27 by Xián O. Camanho, Camanho, Xián O. · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Computer science #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Holography #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Optics #Physics #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1509.08129

published in arXiv (Cornell University) (Cornell University) · PhD thesis, defended September 20, 2013. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-th/0309246, arXiv:gr-qc/0305004 by other authors

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Abstract

This thesis is divided in two separate parts, the first concerned with gravitational aspects of Lovelock theories, the second with some of their holographic applications.

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