Generalized Chern-Simons action principles for gravity
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/ Abstract
Generalized dierential forms are employed to construct gen- eralized connections. Lorentzian four-metrics determined by certain of these connections satisfy Einstein's vacuum …eld equations when the connections are ‡at. Generalized Chern-Simons action principles with Einstein's equa- tions as Euler-Lagrange equations are constructed by using these connections.
Journal: arXiv: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology