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arxiv: 1601.02235 · v1 · pith:S3GHR4P5new · submitted 2016-01-10 · 🌀 gr-qc

Nonlinear Gravitational Lagrangians revisited

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The Legendre transformation method, applied in 1987 to deal with purely metric gravitational Lagrangians with nonlinear dependence on the Ricci tensor, is extended to metric-affine models and is shown to provide a concise and insightful comparison of the dynamical content of the two variational frameworks.

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