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arxiv: hep-th/0306021 · v1 · submitted 2003-06-03 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Higher curvature Lagrangians, conformal symmetry and microscopic entropy of Killing horizons

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qc
keywords 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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