Euler-form actions and the vanishing of the cosmological constant
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1989
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We investigate the conditions of the vanishing cosmological constant and the presence of gravity and vector gauge fields in a
D
-dimensional non-Abelian Kaluza-Klein theory based on a dimensionally continued
2
N
-dimensional Euler-form action. It is shown that these conditions can be satisfied only for
D
=
2
N
+
3
.