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A comment on metric vs metric-affine gravity

Physics Letters B, ISSN: 0370-2693, Vol: 836, Page: 137619
2023
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We consider the sum of the Einstein-Hilbert action and a Pontryagin density (PD) in arbitrary even dimension D≥4. All curvatures are functions of independent affine (torsionless) connections only. In arbitrary even dimension, not only in D=4n, these first order PD terms are shown to be covariant divergences of “Chern-Simons” currents. The field equation for the connection leads to it being Levi-Civita, and to the metric and affine field equations being equivalent to the second order metric theory. This result is a counterexample to the theorem stating that purely metric and metric-affine models can only be equivalent for Lovelock theories.

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