On the topological character of metric-affine Lovelock Lagrangians in critical dimensions

DOI10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134996zbMath1434.70068arXiv1907.12100OpenAlexW2979160809MaRDI QIDQ2187223

Alejandro Jiménez-Cano, Bert Janssen

Publication date: 2 June 2020

Published in: Physics Letters. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.12100

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) More general nonquantum field theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S20)

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