Gravity without metric, torsion, and topological gravity

DOI10.1063/1.531312zbMath0822.53069MaRDI QIDQ4837358

Pratul Bandyopadhyay, Lipika Mullick

Publication date: 25 October 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.531312

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrangian formulation; cosmological constant; topological gravity; gravitational action

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

83C47: Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory

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

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