Boundary Term in Metric f(R) Gravity: Field Equations in the Metric Formalism

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2010-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/1002.0617v4

Gen. Rel. Grav. 42:2713-2728, 2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

12 pages, title changes by referee recommendation. Accepted for publication in General Relativity and Gravitation. Matches wit

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10714-010-1012-6

The main goal of this paper is to get in a straightforward form the field equations in metric f(R) gravity, using elementary variational principles and adding a boundary term in the action, instead of the usual treatment in an equivalent scalar-tensor approach. We start with a brief review of the Einstein-Hilbert action, together with the Gibbons-York-Hawking boundary term, which is mentioned in some literature, but is generally missing. Next we present in detail the field equations in metric f(R) gravity, including the discussion about boundaries, and we compare with the Gibbons-York-Hawking term in General Relativity. We notice that this boundary term is necessary in order to have a well defined extremal action principle under metric variation.

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