Published February 1975 | Version v1
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A correction to the Sen and Dunn gravitational field equations

Creators

  • 1. Department of Mathematics, Caulfield Institute of Technology, Caulfield East, Victoria, 3145, Australia

Description

It is shown that the gravitational field equations proposed by Sen and Dunn do not follow from their variational principle and that in the vacuum case the correct field equations are related to Einstein's field equations by a conformal mapping.

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Additional titles

Augmented title (English)
Lyra manifold

Identifiers

DOI
10.1063/1.522544;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal Volume
16
Journal Issue
2
Series
J. Math. Phys. (N.Y.).
Journal Page Range
320-321
ISSN
0022-2488

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
6183223
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GRAVITATION; RIEMANN SPACE; SCALARS; TENSORS; VARIATIONAL METHODS
Descriptors DEC
EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; SPACE

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