2010

Black Holes in Quasi-topological Gravity

Myers, Robert C., Robinson, Brandon

Understand

We construct a new gravitational action which includes cubic curvature interactions and which provides a useful toy model for the holographic study of a three parameter family of four- and higher-dimensional CFT's.

We also investigate the black hole solutions of this new gravity theory.
Further we examine the equations of motion of quasi-topological gravity.
While the full equations in a general background are fourth-order in derivatives, we show that the linearized equations describing gravitons propagating in the AdS vacua match precisely the second-order equations of Einstein gravity.

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