Junction conditions for higher order gravity theories from a Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term

Abstract

In this work we study the problem of generalizing the Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary terms for general quadratic theories of gravity and propose a simple condition to obtain them. From these terms we derive the junction conditions for a subset of this family of theories that includes Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravity. We re-obtain the well-known results for GB theory, generalize them to other quadratic theories and compare the resulting junction conditions with the ones already derived in the literature using other methods

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