Higher curvature Lagrangians, conformal symmetry and microscopic entropy of Killing horizons
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✦ hep-th
gr-qc
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curvatureentropykillinglagrangiansalgebraarbitraryboundarycalculable
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We impose a certain class of boundary conditions on Killing horizon and show for Lagrangians with arbitrary curvature dependence that one can identify a Virasoro algebra with nontrivial central charge and calculable Hamiltonian eigenvalue. Entropy can then be calculated from Cardy formula.
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