Abstract
We have shown that terms in the action which won't contribute to local equation of motions do contribute to globally conversed physical quantities in classical theories of gravity due to general coordinate covariance. This observation allows one to determining the Immirzi parameter in the Ashtekar variable formulation of gravitational theories even at classical level. Applying Wald's Noether charge approach and identifying the entropy on black hole horizon as the Noether charge for translation, one can demonstrate explicitly that the Immirzi parameter does make its contributions through the boundary term. Our results also shed lights in connecting the Immirzi paramter to quasi-normal modes of black holes.
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