Spin and torsion in general relativity: I. Foundations
Abstract
From physical arguments space-time is assumed to possess a connection. is Christoffel's symbol built up from the metric gij and already appearing in General Relativity (GR). Cartan's torsion tensor and the contortion tensor Kijk, in contrast to the theory presented here, both vanish identically in conventional GR.
- Publication:
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General Relativity and Gravitation
- Pub Date:
- July 1973
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00759853
- Bibcode:
- 1973GReGr...4..333H
- Keywords:
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- Action Function;
- Field Equation;
- Momentum Tensor;
- Spin Motion;
- Contortion Tensor