Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10724575 | Physics Letters B | 2006 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
A finite action principle for three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant, based on a boundary condition for the asymptotic extrinsic curvature, is considered. The bulk action appears naturally supplemented by a boundary term that is one half the Gibbons-Hawking term, that makes the Euclidean action and the Noether charges finite without additional Dirichlet counterterms. The consistency of this boundary condition with the Dirichlet problem in AdS gravity and the Chern-Simons formulation in three dimensions, and its suitability for the higher odd-dimensional case, are also discussed.
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Authors
Olivera MiÅ¡koviÄ, Rodrigo Olea,