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Further Extended Theories of Gravitation: Part I

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-01-05 v2

Abstract

We shall here propose a class of relativistic theories of gravitation, based on a foundational paper of Ehlers Pirani and Schild (EPS).All "extended theories of gravitation" (also known as f(R) theories) in Palatini formalism are shown to belong to this class. In a forthcoming paper we shall show that this class of theories contains other more general examples. EPS framework helps in the interpretation and solution of these models that however have exotic behaviours even compared to f(R) theories.

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@article{arxiv.0911.2841,
  title  = {Further Extended Theories of Gravitation: Part I},
  author = {M. Di Mauro and L. Fatibene and M. Ferraris and M. Francaviglia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.2841},
  year   = {2011}
}

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10 pages. Some refs added