Extended Palatini action for general relativity and the natural emergence of the cosmological constant

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2008-09-11

arxiv.org/abs/0809.2053v2

Phys.Rev.D80:084029,2009

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

in the revised version the original scalar matter action is replaced with a general matter action

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10.1103/PhysRevD.80.084029

In the Palatini action of general relativity the connection and the metric are treated as independent dynamical variables. Instead of assuming a relation between these quantities, the desired relation between them is derived through the Euler-Lagrange equations of the Palatini action. In this manuscript we construct an extended Palatini action, where we do not assume any a priori relationship between the connection, the covariant metric tensor, and the contravariant metric tensor. Instead we treat these three quantities as independent dynamical variables. We show that this action reproduces the standard Einstein field equations depending on a single metric tensor. We further show that in this formulation the cosmological constant has an additional theoretical significance. Normally the cosmological constant is added to the Einstein field equations for the purpose of having general relativity be consistent with cosmological observations. In the formulation presented here, the nonvanishing cosmological constant also ensures the self-consistency of the theory.

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