What Is Pure Einstein Gravity?

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latentcorpse

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Apr 11, 2011

What does "pure Einstein gravity" mean?

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Apr 11, 2011

It usually means the physics described by the Einstein-Hilbert action alone, with a torsion-free connection. This is in contrast to theories that couple matter or EM fields to gravity, or that include higher-order curvature terms in the action.

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