Uniqueness conjecture for Riemannian metric-affine solutions

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Consider the metric-affine Euler–Lagrange problem for the action with weights cjc_j, restricted to Riemannian spacetimes, meaning spacetimes with metric-compatible connections. Thompson spaces and Einstein spaces are the two families of Riemannian solutions constructed in the paper. Riemannian uniqueness conjecture. For generic weights cjc_j, Thompson spaces and Einstein spaces are the only Riemannian solutions of the metric-affine Euler–Lagrange problem. The claim is a uniqueness assertion within the Riemannian class; the paper notes that the equations are heavily overdetermined and that special weights can produce additional solutions.

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Dmitri Vassiliev, “Pseudoinstantons in metric-affine field theory”, arXiv:gr-qc/0108028 (2001).

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