Palatini-Lovelock-Cartan gravity - Bianchi identities for stringy fluxes

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/13/135004zbMATH Open1248.83104arXiv1202.4934OpenAlexW3104529572MaRDI QIDQ2904580FDOQ2904580

Felix Rennecke, Erik Plauschinn, Andreas Deser, Ralph Blumenhagen

Publication date: 14 August 2012

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

Abstract: A Palatini-type action for Einstein and Gauss-Bonnet gravity with non-trivial torsion is proposed. Three-form flux is incorporated via a deformation of the Riemann tensor, and consistency of the Palatini variational principle requires the flux to be covariantly constant and to satisfy a Jacobi identity. Studying gravity actions of third order in the curvature leads to a conjecture about general Palatini-Lovelock-Cartan gravity. We point out potential relations to string-theoretic Bianchi identities and, using the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket, derive a set of Bianchi identities for the non-geometric Q- and R-fluxes which include derivative and curvature terms. Finally, the problem of relating torsional gravity to higher-order corrections of the bosonic string-effective action is revisited.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4934

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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• Progress in Clifford space gravity
• Generalised fluxes, Yang-Baxter deformations and the O\((d,d)\) structure of non-abelian \(T\)-duality
• Lie algebroids, non-associative structures and non-geometric fluxes
• Non-geometric strings, symplectic gravity and differential geometry of Lie algebroids
• Palatini variation in generalized geometry and string effective actions
• \(f\)(Lovelock) theories of gravity
• Current algebras, generalised fluxes and non-geometry
• Sigma models for genuinely non-geometric backgrounds

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