The physical foundations for the geometric structure of relativistic theories of gravitation: From general relativity to extended theories of gravity through Ehlers-Pirani-Schild approach

International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Capozziello, S ^a,b   De Laurentis, M ^a,b   Fatibene, L ^c,d   Francaviglia, M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d SEZIONE DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extended theories of gravity; geodesic structure; metric approach; metric affine approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868519034     PISSN: 02198878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219887812500727     Document Type: Article

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