Gravity without metric, torsion, and topological gravity

DOI10.1063/1.531312zbMath0822.53069OpenAlexW2003796538MaRDI QIDQ4837358

Pratul Bandyopadhyay, Lipika Mullick

Publication date: 25 October 1995

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.531312

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian formulationcosmological constanttopological gravitygravitational action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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