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挠率和不变体积在Palatini引力理论中的重要性

Importance of torsion and invariant volumes in Palatini theories of gravity

Gonzalo J. Olmo, D. Rubiera-Garcia

摘要:

我们研究了广义相对论的扩展的场方程制定内的度量仿射形式主义设置扭转为零(Palatini方法)。我们发现,不同的(二阶)动力学方程的出现取决于扭转是否设置为零i)先验或ii)后验,即,在考虑动作的变化之前或之后。考虑到一个通用的家庭的Ricci平方理论,我们表明,在这两种情况下的连接可以分解为Levi-Civita连接和条款取决于一个向量场的总和。然而,虽然在情况i)中这个向量场与联络的对称部分有关,但在ii)中它来自挠率部分,因此,一旦挠率被完全去除,它就消失了。此外,这个与挠率相关的向量场的消失直接意味着里奇张量的反对称部分的消失,因此它在动力学中不起作用。与此相关,我们发现,列维-Civita部分的连接是由于存在一个不变的体积相关联的辅助度量$h_{μν}$,这是代数相关的物理度量$g_{μν}$。

英文摘要:

We study the field equations of extensions of General Relativity formulated within a metric-affine formalism setting torsion to zero (Palatini approach). We find that different (second-order) dynamical equations arise depending on whether torsion is set to zero i) a priori or ii) a posteriori, i.e., before or after considering variations of the action. Considering a generic family of Ricci-squared theories, we show that in both cases the connection can be decomposed as the sum of a Levi-Civita connection and terms depending on a vector field. However, while in case i) this vector field is related to the symmetric part of the connection, in ii) it comes from the torsion part and, therefore, it vanishes once torsion is completely removed. Moreover, the vanishing of this torsion-related vector field immediately implies the vanishing of the antisymmetric part of the Ricci tensor, which therefore plays no role in the dynamics. Related to this, we find that the Levi-Civita part of the connection is due to the existence of an invariant volume associated to an auxiliary metric $h_{μν}$, which is algebraically related with the physical metric $g_{μν}$.

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