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gibbons-hawking-york boundary term

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English

Syllables
gib-bon-s-hawk-ing-y-ork bound-ary term
IPA
61
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
8
Syllables
17
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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

Etymology

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

What does gibbons-hawking-york boundary term mean?
In general relativity, a term that needs to be added to the Einstein-Hilbert action when the underlying spacetime manifold has a boundary.
Where does gibbons-hawking-york boundary term come from?
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.

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