Tuesday, July 31, 2012

1207.6969 (L. Bonora et al.)

Gravitational Chern-Simons terms and black hole entropy. Global aspects    [PDF]

L. Bonora, M. Cvitan, P. Dominis Prester, S. Pallua, I. Smolic
We discuss the topological and global gauge properties of the formula for a black hole entropy due to a purely gravitational Chern-Simons term. We study under what topological and geometrical conditions this formula is well-defined. To this end we have to analyze the global properties of the Chern-Simons term itself and the quantization of its coupling. We show that in some cases the coupling quantization may interfere with the well-definiteness of the entropy formula.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6969

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