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Conserved currents in the Palatini formulation of general relativity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-08-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We derive the expressions for the local, on-shell closed co-dimension 2 forms in the Palatini formulation of general relativity and explicitly show their on-shell equivalence to those of the metric formulation. When compared to other first order formulations, two subtleties have to be addressed during the construction: off-shell non-metricity and the fact that the transformation of the connection under infinitesimal diffeomorphisms involves second order derivatives of the associated vector fields.

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@article{arxiv.2004.15002,
  title  = {Conserved currents in the Palatini formulation of general relativity},
  author = {Glenn Barnich and Pujian Mao and Romain Ruzziconi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.15002},
  year   = {2020}
}

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