A non-trivial connection for the metric-affine Gauss–Bonnet theory in D = 4

We study non-trivial (i.e. non-Levi-Civita) connections in metric-affine Lovelock theories. First we study the projective invariance of general Lovelock actions and show that all connections constructed by acting with a projective transformation of the Levi-Civita connection are allowed solutions, a...

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Main Authors: Bert Janssen, Alejandro Jiménez-Cano, José Alberto Orejuela
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-08-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269319303806