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A theory that describes how matter interacts dynamically with the geometry of space and time. It was first published by Einstein in 1915 and is currently used to study the structure and evolution of the universe, as well as having practical applications like GPS.

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Is Einstein-Hilbert action the unique action whose variation gives Einstein's field equations?

I know that scaling the action with a non-zero multiplicative constant, or adding a total divergence term to the Lagrangian density do not change the Euler-Lagrange equations, cf. e.g. this Phy …
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Proof that higher genus surface admits a metric of negative Ricci scalar everywhere

This result follows from i) Uniformization theorem and ii) Gauss-Bonnet theorem in 2d. According to the statement of uniformization theorem from this wiki page : every connected Riemann surface …
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