Symmetries of topological gravity with torsion in the hamiltonian and lagrangian formalisms

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Banerjee, Rabin ^a   Gangopadhyay, Sunandan ^b   Mukherjee, Pradip ^c   Roy, Debraj ^a  

^a S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

^b WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c PRESIDENCY UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Classical theories of gravity; Gauge symmetry; Space time symmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954950732     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)075     Document Type: Article

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