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Dynamical structure of Pure Lovelock gravity

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arxiv 1511.02541 v1 pith:3LEKBQBL submitted 2015-11-08 hep-th gr-qc

Dynamical structure of Pure Lovelock gravity

classification hep-th gr-qc
keywords lovelockactionconstantdegreesdynamicaleinstein-hilbertfreedomgravity
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We study dynamical structure of Pure Lovelock gravity in spacetime dimensions higher than four using the Hamiltonian formalism. The action consists of cosmological constant and a single higher-order polynomial in the Riemann tensor. Similarly to Einstein-Hilbert action, it possesses a unique constant curvature vacuum and charged black hole solutions. We analyze physical degrees of freedom and local symmetries in this theory. In contrast to the Einstein-Hilbert case, a number of degrees of freedom depends on the background and can vary from zero to the maximal value carried by the Lovelock theory.

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