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Non-Riemannian gravitational interactions

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  1. School of Physics and Chemistry, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, U.K.

Abstract

Recent developments in theories of non-Riemannian gravitational interactions are outlined. The question of the motion of a fluid in the presence of torsion and metric gradient fields is approached in terms of the divergence of the Einstein tensor associated with a general connection. In the absence of matter the variational equations associated with a broad class of actions involving non-Riemannian fields give rise to an Einstein-Proca system associated with the standard Levi-Civita connection.

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Banach Center Publications
1997/41/2
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Pages:
263-271
Main language of publication
English
Published
1997
Exact and natural sciences