VARIATIONAL FORMULATION OF EISENHART'S UNIFIED THEORY

DOI10.1142/S0217751X09044735MaRDI QIDQ3648416zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors N. J. Popławski

Publication date 25 November 2009

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4366

zbMATH Keywords

metric-affine gravityunified field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Unified quantum theories (81V22)

Abstract: Eisenhart's classical unified field theory is based on a non-Riemannian affine connection related to the covariant derivative of the electromagnetic field tensor. The sourceless field equations of this theory arise from vanishing of the torsion trace and the symmetrized Ricci tensor. We formulate Eisenhart's theory from the metric-affine variational principle. In this formulation, a Lagrange multiplier constraining the torsion becomes the source for the Maxwell equations.

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