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Stationary Point of the Hilbert Action Principle

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-12-22 v1

Abstract

The Hilbert action principle for the Einstein equations has two boundary terms that must be subtracted in order to obtain a true stationary point. In this paper, I obtain both of them.

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@article{arxiv.1512.06756,
  title  = {Stationary Point of the Hilbert Action Principle},
  author = {James W. York},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.06756},
  year   = {2015}
}