Palatini identity

In general relativity and tensor calculus, the Palatini identity is:

\delta R_{\mu \nu }{}=(\delta \Gamma ^{\lambda }{}_{\mu \lambda })_{;\nu }-(\delta \Gamma ^{\lambda }{}_{\mu \nu })_{;\lambda }

where $\delta \Gamma ^{{\lambda }}{}_{{\mu \nu }}$ denotes the variation of Christoffel symbols^[1] and semicolon ";" indicates covariant differentiation.

Proof can be found in the entry Einstein–Hilbert action.

See also

Notes

↑ Christoffel, E.B. (1869), "Ueber die Transformation der homogenen Differentialausdrücke zweiten Grades", Jour. für die reine und angewandte Mathematik, B. 70: 46–70

References

A. Palatini (1919) Deduzione invariantiva delle equazioni gravitazionali dal principio di Hamilton, Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 43, 203-212 [English translation by R.Hojman and C. Mukku in P.G. Bergmann and V. De Sabbata (eds.) Cosmology and Gravitation, Plenum Press, New York (1980)]
M. Tsamparlis, On the Palatini method of Variation, J. Math. Phys. 19, 555 (1977).

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