Lovelock-Cartan theory of gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/8/8/018zbMath0732.53072OpenAlexW1965828542MaRDI QIDQ3357859

Alejandro Mardones, Jorge Zanelli

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/8/8/018

zbMATH Keywords

LagrangianChern-Simons theoriesPontryagin classesEuler classesLovelock actiontheory of gravity with torsion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Related Items (28)

Predicting Planck scale and Newtonian constant from a Yang-Mills gauge theory: 1- and 2-loop estimates ⋮ Generalized Poincaré algebras and Lovelock-Cartan gravity theory ⋮ Einstein gravity, massive gravity, multi-gravity and nonlinear realizations ⋮ Exact solutions in higher-dimensional Lovelock and AdS ₅ Chern-Simons gravity ⋮ 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity from non-Einsteinian phase ⋮ The constraint equations of Lovelock gravity theories: A new σ k-Yamabe problem ⋮ On the topological reduction from the affine to the orthogonal gauge theory of gravity ⋮ Cosmic acceleration in Lovelock quantum gravity ⋮ Topological gravity and gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten term ⋮ Hamiltonian study for Chern-Simons and Pontryagin theories ⋮ Late-time constraints on modified Gauss-Bonnet cosmology ⋮ Asymptotically AdS-Schwarzschild black hole in pure-Lovelock theory in 3+1-dimensions ⋮ From SL(5, ℝ) Yang–Mills theory to induced gravity ⋮ Surface charges for gravity and electromagnetism in the first order formalism ⋮ D = 4 topological gravity from gauging the Maxwell-special-affine group ⋮ Faddeev-Jackiw quantization of topological invariants: Euler and Pontryagin classes ⋮ Some cosmological models coming from gravitational theories having torsional degrees of freedom ⋮ Emergent metric and geodesic analysis in cosmological solutions of (torsion-free) polynomial affine gravity ⋮ Maxwell-affine gauge theory of gravity ⋮ Intersecting hypersurfaces in dimensionally continued topological density gravitation ⋮ Singular sources in gravity and homotopy in the space of connections ⋮ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black strings ⋮ Lie-algebra expansions, Chern-Simons theories and the Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian ⋮ On higher order gravities, their analogy to GR, and dimensional dependent version of Duff's trace anomaly relation ⋮ Non-relativistic limit of gravity theories in the first order formalism ⋮ A note on the novel 4D Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity ⋮ Selected topics in scalar–tensor theories and beyond ⋮ Carroll limit of four-dimensional gravity theories in the first order formalism

This page was built for publication: Lovelock-Cartan theory of gravity