The MacDowell–Mansouri action (named after
S. W. MacDowell and
Freydoon Mansouri) is an
action
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that is used to derive
Einstein's field equations of
general relativity
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.
It can usefully be formulated in terms of
Cartan geometry.
References
Further reading
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* Wise, D. (2010)
“MacDowell-Mansouri gravity and Cartan geometry” Class. Quantum Grav. 27, 155010.
* Reid, James A.; Wang, Charles H.-T. (2014)
"Conformal holonomy in MacDowell-Mansouri gravity" J. Math. Phys. 55, 032501.
General relativity
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