Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term en · PROPN
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.
Meanings
- In general relativity, a term that needs to be added to the Einstein-Hilbert action when the underlying spacetime manifold has a boundary.
wikipedia: James W. York · wikipedia: Stephen Hawking · wikipedia: Gary Gibbons