THE EINSTEIN–HILBERT LAGRANGIAN DENSITY IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL SPACETIME IS AN EXACT DIFFERENTIAL

DOI10.1142/S0217732306019888MaRDI QIDQ5481932zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. da Rocha, Waldyr A. jun. Rodrigues

Publication date 24 August 2006

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0512168

zbMATH Keywords

two-dimensional spacetimeEinstein--Hilbert Lagrangianexact divergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: Recently Kiriushcheva and Kuzmin claimed to have shown that the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian cannot be written in any coordinate gauge as an exact differential in a 2-dimensional spacetime. Since this is contrary to other statements on the subject found in the literature, as e.g., by Deser and Jackiw, Jackiw, Grumiller, Kummer and Vassilevich it is necessary to do decide who has reason. This is done in this paper in a very simply way using the Clifford bundle formalism. In this version we added Section 18 which discusses a recent comment on our paper just posted by Kiriushcheva and Kuzmin.

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