English

On higher dimensional gravity: the Lagrangian, its dimensional reduction and a cosmological model

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2021-08-25 v1

Abstract

By dimensional reduction of the Lovelock Lagrangian, effective four-dimensional field equations and expressions for the cosmological and gravitational constants are obtained. A cosmological model is discussed with the n-torus as internal space.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2108.10633,
  title  = {On higher dimensional gravity: the Lagrangian, its dimensional reduction and a cosmological model},
  author = {Theo Verwimp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.10633},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

11 pages, a typo in equation (3.17) of the original publication has been corrected

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