Cauchy constraints and particle content of fourth-order gravity in \(n\) dimensions.

DOI10.1016/S0960-0779(02)00090-5zbMath1033.83025OpenAlexW1990577138MaRDI QIDQ1419099

D. Massart

Publication date: 14 January 2004

Published in: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0960-0779(02)00090-5

zbMATH Keywords

Ricci tensorLagrangianRiemann tensorgaugevariational derivativeprincipal symbollinearized field equationspurely metrical gravitational theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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