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arxiv 1302.2151 v4 pith:T22EFPYS submitted 2013-02-08 gr-qc astro-ph.COhep-th

Lanczos-Lovelock models of gravity

T. Padmanabhan , Dawood Kothawala This is my paper
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Lanczos-Lovelock models of gravity represent a natural and elegant generalization of Einstein's theory of gravity to higher dimensions. They are characterized by the fact that the field equations only contain up to second derivatives of the metric even though the action functional can be a quadratic or higher degree polynomial in the curvature tensor. Because these models share several key properties of Einstein's theory they serve as a useful set of candidate models for testing the emergent paradigm for gravity. This review highlights several geometrical and thermodynamical aspects of Lanczos-Lovelock models which have attracted recent attention.

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