Diffeomorphism symmetry in the Lagrangian formulation of gravity

DOI10.1007/S10773-008-9914-8MaRDI QIDQ2390863zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Saurav Samanta

Publication date 10 August 2009

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3300

zbMATH Keywords

gravityLagrangian analysisdiffeomorphism symmetry

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)

Abstract: Starting from a knowledge of certain identities in the Lagrangian description, the diffeomorphism transformations of metric and connection are obtained for both the second order (metric) and the first order (Palatini) formulations of gravity. The transformation laws of the connection and the metric are derived independently in the Palatini formulation in contrast to the metric formulation where the gauge variation of the connection is deduced from the gauge variation of the metric.

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