THE VARIATIONAL APPROACH TO ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF GRAVITY

DOI10.1142/S0219887807001965zbMath1121.83010OpenAlexW2763665683WikidataQ124873624 ScholiaQ124873624MaRDI QIDQ3435116

Mauro Francaviglia, Gianluca Allemandi

Publication date: 25 April 2007

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0219887807001965

zbMATH Keywords

higher-order gravityChern-Simons theoriescosmological applicationsmetric formalism\(f(R)\) case5-dimensional Euler-Chern-Simons Lagrangian theoriesRicci squared gra\-vi\-tyscalar-tensor casevariational approach to alternative theories of gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

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