Research Article
A Field Theory with Curvature and Anticurvature
Table 4
Comparison between nonlinear geometric field theories (
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| Theory | Geometry | Number of field variables | Material energy tensor | Metricity condition | Unification philosophy | Anticurvature |
| Einstein-Cartan [42] | Riemann-Cartan | | Phenomenological | Satisfied | Violated | Not defined | Metric-Affine [43, 44] | Metric-Affine | | Phenomenological | Violated | Violated | Not defined | Present Work | PAP | | Geometric | Satisfied | Satisfied | Clearly defined |
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