Autoparallels from a new action principle

DOI10.1023/A:1026701613987zbMATH Open1010.83055arXivgr-qc/9605028OpenAlexW1485351559MaRDI QIDQ1808013FDOQ1808013

Authors: Hagen Kleinert, Axel Pelster 

Publication date: 30 November 1999

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a simpler and more powerful version of the recently-discovered action principle for the motion of a spinless point particle in spacetimes with curvature and torsion. The surprising feature of the new principle is that an action involving only the metric can produce an equation of motion with a torsion force, thus changing geodesics to autoparallels. This additional torsion force arises from a noncommutativity of variations with parameter derivatives of the paths due to the closure failure of parallelograms in the presence of torsion

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9605028

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zbMATH Keywords

torsionaction principlemotion of a spinless point particle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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