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arxiv: gr-qc/0503023 · v1 · submitted 2005-03-05 · 🌀 gr-qc

Palatini Formalism of 5-Dimensional Kaluza-Klein Theory

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keywords fieldpalatiniactiondimensionalequationsformalismkaluza-kleinkilling
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The Einstein field equations can be derived in $n$ dimensions ($n>2$) by the variations of the Palatini action. The Killing reduction of 5-dimensional Palatini action is studied on the assumption that pentads and Lorentz connections are preserved by the Killing vector field. A Palatini formalism of 4-dimensional action for gravity coupled to a vector field and a scalar field is obtained, which gives exactly the same fields equations in Kaluza-Klein theory.

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