Consistent Levi Civita truncation uniquely characterizes the Lovelock Lagrangians

preprint2011arXivOpen access

Abstract

We define the concept of Levi Civita truncation for a Lagrangian in the Palatini formulation with an arbitrary connection, and show that its consistency uniquely identifies the Lovelock Lagrangians.

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