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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D
Volume 18, Issue 5, Pages 809-829Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271809014777
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Purely affine gravity; Einstein-Maxwell equations; cosmological constant; Eddington Lagrangian; Ferraris-Kijowski Lagrangian
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The Eddington Lagrangian in the purely a. ne formulation of general relativity generates the Einstein equations with the cosmological constant. The Ferraris-Kijowski purely a. ne Lagrangian for the electromagnetic field, which has the form of the Maxwell Lagrangian with the metric tensor replaced by the symmetrized Ricci tensor, is dynamically equivalent to the Einstein-Maxwell Lagrangian in the metric formulation. We show that the sum of the two a. ne Lagrangians is dynamically inequivalent to the sum of the analogous Lagrangians in the metric-affine/metric formulation. We also show that such a construction is valid only for weak electromagnetic fields. Therefore the purely a. ne formulation that combines gravitation, electromagnetism and the cosmological constant cannot be a simple sum of terms corresponding to separate fields. Consequently, this formulation of electromagnetism seems to be unphysical, unlike the purely metric and metric-affine pictures, unless the electromagnetic field couples to the cosmological constant.
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