A tale of two theories of gravity in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter spacetime

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العنوان: A tale of two theories of gravity in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter spacetime
المؤلفون: Durka, Remigiusz, Kowalski-Glikman, Jerzy
سنة النشر: 2022
المجموعة: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Theory
الوصف: We consider two BF formulations of the theory of gravity with a negative cosmological constant, of Plebanski and of MacDowell-Mansouri. Both give the standard Einstein equations in the bulk but differ in expressions of edge charges. We compute the asymptotic charges explicitly in both theories for AdS-Schwarzschild, AdS-Kerr, and AdS-Taub--NUT solutions. We find that while in the case of the Plebanski theory the charges are divergent, they are finite for MacDowell-Mansouri theory. Furthermore, we show that in the case of the arbitrary asymptotically AdS spacetimes, MacDowell--Mansouri asymptotic charges, action, and symplectic form are all finite. Therefore MacDowell-Mansouri theory of gravity in asymptotically AdS spaces does not need any counterterms.
Comment: 22 pages, v2 (improved version prepared for publication with the extended supplement file and new references added)
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2023)029
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10154
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2210.10154
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv