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Griffiths Variational Multisymplectic Formulation for Lovelock Gravity

Mathematical Physics 2020-10-05 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

This work is mainly devoted to constructing a multisymplectic description of Lovelock's gravity, which is an extension of General Relativity. We establish a Griffiths variational problem for the Lovelock Lagrangian, obtaining the geometric form of the corresponding field equations. We give the unified Lagrangian--Hamiltonian formulation of this model and we study the correspondence between the unified formulations for the Einstein--Hilbert and the Einstein--Palatini models of gravity.

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@article{arxiv.1911.07278,
  title  = {Griffiths Variational Multisymplectic Formulation for Lovelock Gravity},
  author = {Santiago Capriotti and Jordi Gaset and Narciso Román-Roy and Leandro Salomone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.07278},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

37 pp. Some shorts comments are added. Minor corrections. The bibliography is updated and a reference has been added

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