Universal Kounterterms in Lovelock AdS gravity
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✦ hep-th
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gravitylovelockuniversalactionasymptoticsbackground-independentboundarychern-simons
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We show the universal form of the boundary term (Kounterterm series) which regularizes the Euclidean action and background-independent definition of conserved quantities for any Lovelock gravity theory with AdS asymptotics (including Einstein-Hilbert and Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet). We discuss on the connection of this procedure to the existence of topological invariants and Chern-Simons forms in the corresponding dimensions.
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