Boundary terms in Lovelock gravity from dimensionally continued Chern-Simons forms

Abstract

Boundary terms for Lovelock gravity are obtained by calculating in arbitrary dimension the index theorem for the de Rham complex of a manifold with nonempty boundary.

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