Gravity from local Poincaré gauge invariance

International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-24

  Capozziello, S ^a   De Laurentis, Maria Felicia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gauge symmetry; Gravity; Local invariance; Riemann Cartan geometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449189169     PISSN: 02198878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219887809003400     Document Type: Article

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