THE VARIATIONAL APPROACH TO ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF GRAVITY

DOI10.1142/S0219887807001965zbMath1121.83010WikidataQ124873624 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 gravity; Chern-Simons theories; cosmological applications; metric formalism; \(f(R)\) case; 5-dimensional Euler-Chern-Simons Lagrangian theories; Ricci squared gra\-vi\-ty; scalar-tensor case; variational approach to alternative theories of gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83F05: Relativistic cosmology

83C05: Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

83D05: Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories

53C50: Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics

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