Quadratic Lagrangians and Palatini's device

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/12/8/017zbMath0408.53007OpenAlexW2076561868MaRDI QIDQ4195545

H. A. Buchdahl

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/12/8/017

zbMATH Keywords

Variational PrincipleEinstein's TheoryPalatini's DeviceQuadratic Lagrangians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Linear and affine connections (53B05)

Related Items

Extended cosmologies ⋮ Cauchy constraints and particle content of fourth-order gravity in \(n\) dimensions. ⋮ Extended theories of gravity and their cosmological and astrophysical applications ⋮ Hans A. Buchdahl (7.7.1919--7.1.2010) ⋮ On higher order gravities, their analogy to GR, and dimensional dependent version of Duff's trace anomaly relation ⋮ Variational and conformal structure of nonlinear metric-connection gravitational Lagrangians ⋮ THE VARIATIONAL APPROACH TO ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF GRAVITY