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Non-Riemannian Gravitational Interactions

1996/08/23 by Robin W Tucker, R.W. Tucker, Tucker, Robin W +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #gr-qc

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/9608055

13 pages LaTex (No Figures), Presented at the Stefan-Banach Conference on Mathematical Physics, Warsaw, Poland (1996)

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Abstract

Recent developments in theories of non-Riemannian gravitational interactions are outlined. The question of the motion of a fluid in the presence of torsion and metric gradient fields is approached in terms of the divergence of the Einstein tensor associated with a general connection. In the absence of matter the variational equations associated with a broad class of actions involving non-Riemannian fields give rise to an Einstein-Proca system associated with the standard Levi-Civita connection.

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