(Un)attractor black holes in higher derivative AdS gravity

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We investigate five-dimensional static (non-)extremal black hole solutions in higher derivative Anti-de Sitter gravity theories with neutral scalars non-minimally coupled to gauge fields.

• We explicitly identify the boundary counterterms to regularize the gravitational action and the stress tensor.
• We illustrate these results by applying the method of holographic renormalization to computing thermodynamical properties in several concrete examples.
• We also construct numerical extremal black hole solutions and discuss the attractor mechanism by using the entropy function formalism.