Consistent Levi Civita truncation uniquely characterizes the Lovelock Lagrangians
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-05-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We define the concept of Levi Civita truncation for a Lagrangian in the Palatini formulation with an arbitrary connection, and show that its consistency uniquely identifies the Lovelock Lagrangians.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1012.1692,
title = {Consistent Levi Civita truncation uniquely characterizes the Lovelock Lagrangians},
author = {Naresh Dadhich and Josep M. Pons},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.1692},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages. Title slightly changed to emphasize the result. Matches published version