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Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term

Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term proper noun: in general relativity, a term that needs to be added to the Einstein-Hilbert action when the underlying spacetime manifold has a boundary.

Proper noun

Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term

  1. In general relativity, a term that needs to be added to the Einstein-Hilbert action when the underlying spacetime manifold has a boundary.

Origin of Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term

The necessity of such a boundary term was first realised by James W. York and later refined in a minor way by Gary Gibbons and Stephen Hawking.

Questions about Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term

What does Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term mean?
Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term means in general relativity, a term that needs to be added to the Einstein-Hilbert action when the underlying spacetime manifold has a boundary.
What part of speech is Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term?
Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term is a proper noun.

Words near Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term in the dictionary

  1. Gibbonesque
  2. Gibboney
  3. Gibboneys
  4. Gibbonian
  5. gibbons
  6. Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term
  7. gibbose
  8. gibbosely
  9. gibbosities
  10. gibbosity
  11. gibbous

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