Wald Entropy for Ghost-Free, Infinite Derivative Theories of Gravity

Aindriú Conroy, Anupam Mazumdar, Ali Teimouri
2015 Physical Review Letters  
In this paper, we demonstrate that the Wald's entropy for any spherically symmetric blackhole within an infinite derivative theory of gravity is determined solely by the area law. Thus, the infrared behaviour of gravity is captured by the Einstein-Hilbert term, provided that the massless graviton remains the only propagating degree of freedom in the spacetime.
doi:10.1103/physrevlett.114.201101 pmid:26047217 fatcat:i24ptvusrbhy7ekfmglcdoxfne