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The GHY boundary term from the string worldsheet to linear order

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arxiv 2411.06400 v2 pith:PCNP22N4 submitted 2024-11-10 hep-th

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Using the method of images we derive the boundary term of the Einstein-$\Gamma^2$ action in half-space from the spherical worldsheet to first order in $\alpha'$ and to linear order in the metric perturbation around flat half-space. The $\Gamma^2$ action, written down by Einstein more than 100 years ago, includes a boundary term that consists of the Gibbons-Hawking-York action along with two additional terms that are functions of the metric, normal vector, and tangential derivatives. With this boundary term, the total (bulk + boundary) sphere effective action has a well-posed variational principle for Dirichlet boundary conditions.

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