Legendre transformation and dynamical structure of higher-derivative gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/7/4/007zbMath0697.53065OpenAlexW2009092355WikidataQ124957732 ScholiaQ124957732MaRDI QIDQ3473776

Mauro Francaviglia, Marco Ferraris, Guido Magnano

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/7/4/007

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci tensorcurvature termsLegendre transformationsgravitational Lagrangiansnonlinear theoriesWeyl terms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50)

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