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arxiv: 1703.01631 · v1 · pith:3LXFUPNEnew · submitted 2017-03-05 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc

Generalized quasi-topological gravity

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keywords gravitytheorycubiceinsteingeneralquasi-topologicalsinglesolutions
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We construct the most general, to cubic order in curvature, theory of gravity whose (most general) static spherically symmetric vacuum solutions are fully described by a single field equation. The theory possess the following remarkable properties: i) it has a well-defined Einstein gravity limit ii) it admits `Schwarzschild-like' solutions characterized by a single metric function iii) on maximally symmetric backgrounds it propagates the same degrees of freedom as Einstein's gravity iv) Lovelock and quasi-topological gravities, as well as the recently developed Einsteinian cubic gravity [ArXiv:1607.06463] in four dimensions, are recovered as special cases. We perform a brief analysis of asymptotically flat black holes in this theory and study their thermodynamics.

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