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Gauge group, degeneration, and degrees of freedom in the ECSK theory of gravity. II. The Moncrief decomposition

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It is shown that in the ECSK theory (coupled to an arbitrary tensor matter field) the degeneration distribution of the symplectic 2-formω is closely connected with the action of the gauge groupG in the space of solutions to the field equations.

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Frąckiewicz, K. Gauge group, degeneration, and degrees of freedom in the ECSK theory of gravity. II. The Moncrief decomposition. Gen Relat Gravit 17, 953–970 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00773832

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