Monday, 16 October 2017

general relativity - Variation of the Christoffel symbols with respect to gmunu


I'm trying to find the field equations for some particular Lagrangian. In the middle I faced the term


δΓαβγδgμν.


I know that


δΓαβγ=12gσα(β(δgσγ)+γ(δgσβ)σ(δgβγ)).


I have two questions:




  1. Is the expression for δΓαβγ somehow related to δΓαβγδgμν?





  2. The idea at the end is to have terms like δLδgαβ=0

    and thus make the variation of the action invariant under δgαβ. So in simple words, is there is any way to have the term δgαβ put of the variation of the Christoffel symbol?






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