Autoparallels From a New Action Principle
Abstract
We present a simpler and more powerful version of the recently-discovered action principle for the motion of a spinless point particle in spacetimes with curvature and torsion. The surprising feature of the new principle is that an action involving only the metric can produce an equation of motion with a torsion force, thus changing geodesics to autoparallels. This additional torsion force arises from a noncommutativity of variations with parameter derivatives of the paths due to the closure failure of parallelograms in the presence of torsion
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9605028,
title = {Autoparallels From a New Action Principle},
author = {H. Kleinert and A. Pelster},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9605028},
year = {2015}
}
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