Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Aspects of Differential Geometry
- 2 Metric and Related Formulations
- 3 Cartan’s Tetrad Formulation
- 4 General Relativity in 2+1 Dimensions
- 5 The ‘Chiral’ Formulation of General Relativity
- 6 Chiral Pure Connection Formulation
- 7 Deformations of General Relativity
- 8 Perturbative Descriptions of Gravity
- 9 Higher-Dimensional Descriptions
- 10 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index
7 - Deformations of General Relativity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Aspects of Differential Geometry
- 2 Metric and Related Formulations
- 3 Cartan’s Tetrad Formulation
- 4 General Relativity in 2+1 Dimensions
- 5 The ‘Chiral’ Formulation of General Relativity
- 6 Chiral Pure Connection Formulation
- 7 Deformations of General Relativity
- 8 Perturbative Descriptions of Gravity
- 9 Higher-Dimensional Descriptions
- 10 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index
Summary
This short Chapter describes a particular modification of 4D General Relativity that is "geometrically natural" in the sense explained. A Bianchi I setup solution of the modified theory is worked out, in particular to illustrate that the modified theory appears to be simpler than GR in the types of functions that get produced.
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- Formulations of General RelativityGravity, Spinors and Differential Forms, pp. 250 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020