A boundary term for the gravitational action with null boundaries
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A boundary term for the gravitational action with null boundaries
zbMATH Open document ID: 1386.83018
author: Peng Zhang
published in: General Relativity and Gravitation
publication date: 2018-01-12T00:00:00Z
full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.01053
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 53Z05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 83C40
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 70H40
zbMATH DE Number: 6826077
zbMATH Keywords: boundary term
zbMATH Keywords: Einstein-Hilbert action
zbMATH Keywords: null surfaces
zbMATH Keywords: Gibbons-Hawking-York term
zbMATH Keywords: variational principle
zbMATH Keywords: general relativity
MaRDI profile type: Publication
OpenAlex ID: W3106257778
arXiv ID: 1501.01053
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DOI: 10.1007/S10714-016-2093-7
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