New Massive Gravity and AdS(4) Counterterms

作者:Jatkar Dileep P*; Sinha Aninda
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2011, 106(17): 171601.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.171601

摘要

We show that the recently proposed Dirac-Born-Infeld extension of new massive gravity emerges naturally as a counterterm in four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdS(4)). The resulting on-shell Euclidean action is independent of the cutoff at zero temperature. We also find that the same choice of counterterm gives the usual area law for the AdS(4) Schwarzschild black hole entropy in a cutoff-independent manner. The parameter values of the resulting counterterm action correspond to a c = 0 theory in the context of the duality between AdS(3) gravity and two-dimensional conformal field theory. We rewrite this theory in terms of the gauge field that is used to recast 3D gravity as a Chern-Simons theory.

  • 出版日期2011-4-29