Abstract
The main purpose of this work is to give an overview of a generalization of the theory of general relativity, namely metric-affine gravity. We rederive an expression for the Lie derivative of the metric in the case of metric-affine theory and discuss some consequences of such an expression. As a gauge theory of gravitation it may be considered as an upshot of a gauging procedure of the general affine group, or its double covering. A historical approach of such a theory is also contained including the key results. One concludes with some perspectives on the calculation of topological observables in that theory viewed as topological gravity theory.
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