Boundary and corner terms in the action for general relativity

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/aa6014zbMath1368.83014arXiv1612.00149OpenAlexW3104276152MaRDI QIDQ5348161

I. Jubb, Rafael D. Sorkin, Joseph Samuel, Sumati Surya

Publication date: 14 August 2017

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.00149

zbMATH Keywords

action principleboundary termsnull boundariesaction principle for general relativitycorner terms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40)

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