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Lagrangian Analysis of ‘Trivial’ Symmetries in Models of Gravity

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We study the differences between Poincaré and canonical Hamiltonian symmetries in models of gravity through the corresponding Noether identities and show that they are equivalent modulo trivial gauge symmetries.

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Roy, D. (2014). Lagrangian Analysis of ‘Trivial’ Symmetries in Models of Gravity. In: Bičák, J., Ledvinka, T. (eds) Relativity and Gravitation. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 157. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06761-2_43

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