Comments on joint terms in gravitational action

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA8053zbMATH Open1372.83008arXiv1704.03232OpenAlexW2736793449MaRDI QIDQ5369366FDOQ5369366

Run-Qiu Yang, Shan-Ming Ruan

Publication date: 17 October 2017

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper compares three different methods about computing joint terms in on-shell action of gravity, which are identifying the joint term by the variational principle in Dirichlet boundary condition, treating the joint term as the limit contribution of smooth boundary and finding the joint term by local SO(1,$d-1$) transformation. In general metric gravitational theory, we show that the differences between these joint terms are some variational invariants under fixed boundary condition. We also give an explicit condition to judge the existence of joint term determined by variational principle and apply it into general relativity as an example.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.03232

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zbMATH Keywords

piecewise smooth boundaryaction in gravity theoryjoint terms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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