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}
}