%0 Journal Article
%T On the Relations between Gravity and BF Theories
%A Laurent Freidel
%A Simone Speziale
%J Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry : Methods and Applications
%D 2012
%I National Academy of Science of Ukraine
%X We review, in the light of recent developments, the existing relations between gravity and topological BF theories at the classical level. We include the Plebanski action in both self-dual and non-chiral formulations, their generalizations, and the MacDowell-Mansouri action.
%K Plebanski action
%K MacDowell-Mansouri action
%K BF gravity
%K TQFT
%K modified theories of gravity
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2012.032