Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Amalie Emmy Noether: A Life for Mathematics
- Notation
- Acronyms
- Part I Preliminaries
- 1 The Concept of Symmetry
- 2 The Two Noether Theorems
- 3 Applications of Noether’s First Theorem to Fields and Particles
- 4 Theories of Gravity: An Overview
- 5 Toward Quantum Gravity
- Part II The Noether Symmetry Approach
- Part III Applications
- Epilogue
- A: Variational Principles
- B: Differential Forms and Variations of Gauge Actions
- C: Noether–Bessel-Hagen Symmetries in Scalar-Tensor Cosmology
- References
- Index
4 - Theories of Gravity: An Overview
from Part I - Preliminaries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Amalie Emmy Noether: A Life for Mathematics
- Notation
- Acronyms
- Part I Preliminaries
- 1 The Concept of Symmetry
- 2 The Two Noether Theorems
- 3 Applications of Noether’s First Theorem to Fields and Particles
- 4 Theories of Gravity: An Overview
- 5 Toward Quantum Gravity
- Part II The Noether Symmetry Approach
- Part III Applications
- Epilogue
- A: Variational Principles
- B: Differential Forms and Variations of Gauge Actions
- C: Noether–Bessel-Hagen Symmetries in Scalar-Tensor Cosmology
- References
- Index
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- Noether Symmetries in Theories of GravityWith Applications to Astrophysics and Cosmology, pp. 48 - 87Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022