A Model of Affine Gravity in Two Dimensions and Plurality of Topology

DOI10.1142/S0217751X9700270XzbMath0902.53060arXivgr-qc/9302037OpenAlexW1524135914MaRDI QIDQ4211985

Mauro Francaviglia, Marco Ferraris, Igor V. Volovich

Publication date: 19 October 1998

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9302037

zbMATH Keywords

topology changeWeyl connectionfirst-order formalismtwo-dimensional gravitynonlinear Lagrangians

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10)

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