Torsion and Nonmetricity in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity

Abstract

We show that the gravitational field equations derived from an action composed of i) an arbitrary function of the scalar curvature and other scalar fields plus ii) connection-independent kinetic and source terms, are identical whether one chooses nonmetricity to vanish and have non-zero torsion or vice versa.

10 pages

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