Gravity as a Bend of 4D Elastic Plate
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Gravity is treated as manifestation of bending of 4D plate at the variational functionals level. Some estimates of elastic constants of space-time are made. Field lagrangians and Einstein equations are discussed in view point of the approach.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0201009,
title = {Gravity as a Bend of 4D Elastic Plate},
author = {Sergey S. Kokarev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0201009},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk presented to 2001 Essays on Gravity. Latex 2e, 5 pages (one removed reference, slightly modified style)