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A Second Law for higher curvature gravity
https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218271815440149Cited by:73 (Source: Crossref)
Abstract
The Second Law of black hole thermodynamics is shown to hold for arbitrarily complicated theories of higher curvature gravity, so long as we allow only linearized perturbations to stationary black holes. Some ambiguities in Wald’s Noether charge method are resolved. The increasing quantity turns out to be the same as the holographic entanglement entropy calculated by Dong. It is suggested that only the linearization of the higher curvature Second Law is important, when consistently truncating a UV-complete quantum gravity theory.
This essay received an Honorable Mention in the 2015 Essay Competition of the Gravity Research Foundation.
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