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Schwinger’s variational principle in Einstein-Cartan gravity

Nikodem Popławski*

  • Department of Physics, University of New Haven, 300 Boston Post Road, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, USA

  • *NPoplawski@newhaven.edu

Phys. Rev. D 89, 027501 – Published 6 January, 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.027501

Abstract

By applying Schwinger’s variational principle to the Einstein-Cartan action for the gravitational field, we derive quantum commutation relations between the metric and torsion tensors.

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