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It is shown that the renormalized action for AdS gravity in even spacetime dimensions is equivalent “on shell” to a polynomial of the Weyl tensor, whose first nonvanishing term is proportional to W eyl 2. Remarkably enough, the coupling of this last term coincides with the one that appears in Critical Gravity.
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Miskovic, O., Tsoukalas, M. & Olea, R. Renormalized AdS action and Critical Gravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2014, 108 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2014)108
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