Static Black Holes and Iyer-Wald Entropy in $f(\mathcal{R},\mathcal{K})$ Gravity

Abstract

We investigate static, spherically symmetric black hole solutions in a class of higher-curvature gravitational theories described by a Lagrangian that depends on the Ricci and Kretschmann scalars. The modified Einstein equations contain higher-order curvature terms. We develop a perturbative scheme to look for a black hole solution that deviates parametrically from the Schwarzschild geometry. We obtain first-order corrections to the metric by solving the resulting coupled differential equations. The corresponding Iyer--Wald entropy is then evaluated consistently to first order in the perturbative coupling. We show that the higher-curvature contribution gives rise to a power-law correction to the Bekenstein--Hawking entropy.