Vierbein Field Theory of Gravitation
- 25 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 165 (5) , 1420-1423
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.165.1420
Abstract
The sixteen components of the vierbein field which factorize the metric tensor are used to construct a simple nonlinear field theory of gravitation which, although it is shown to be equivalent to Einstein's theory physically, is based on a scalar action function of first order, replacing the Riemann scalar which serves as a second-order action function in the conventional approach.Keywords
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