Teleparallel Gravity: An Overview
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The fundamentals of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity are presented, and its main properties described. In particular, the field equations, the definition of an energy--momentum density for the gravitational field, the teleparallel version of the equivalence principle, and the dynamical role played by torsion as compared to the corresponding role played by curvature in general relativity, are discussed in some details.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0011087,
title = {Teleparallel Gravity: An Overview},
author = {V. C. de Andrade and L. C. T. Guillen and J. G. Pereira},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0011087},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, talk given at the IX Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome, Italy, July/2000, to appear in (the electronic version of) the Proceedings