Analytic continuation, the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem, and the Euler-Lagrange equations in Lovelock theory for indefinite signature metrics (Q2514136)

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Analytic continuation, the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem, and the Euler-Lagrange equations in Lovelock theory for indefinite signature metrics
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    Analytic continuation, the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem, and the Euler-Lagrange equations in Lovelock theory for indefinite signature metrics (English)
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    30 January 2015
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    Complexifying various tensor bundles and using analytic continuation provides a useful tool to link Riemannian and pseudo-Riemannian data on a manifold. This ``meta-principle'' is used in the paper by the authors to derive, among others, the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem for pseudo-Riemannian manifolds with boundary directly from its Riemannian counterpart.
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    Chern-Gauss-Bonnet theorem
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    analytic continuation
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    Euler-Lagrange equation
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