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A Gauge Theoretic Approach to Gravity | | Kirill Krasnov
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28 Feb 2012 | | Abstract: | Einstein’s General Relativity (GR) is a dynamical theory of the spacetime
metric. We describe an approach in which GR becomes an SU(2) gauge theory. We
start at the linearised level and show how a gauge theoretic Lagrangian for
non-interacting massless spin two particles (gravitons) takes a much more
simple and compact form than in the standard metric description. Moreover, in
contrast to the GR situation, the gauge theory Lagrangian is convex. We then
proceed with a formulation of the full non-linear theory. The equivalence to
the metric-based GR holds only at the level of solutions of the field
equations, that is, on-shell. The gauge-theoretic approach also makes it clear
that GR is not the only interacting theory of massless spin two particles, in
spite of the GR uniqueness theorems available in the metric description. Thus,
there is an inifnite-parameter class of gravity theories all describing just
two propagating polarisations of the graviton. We describe how matter can be
coupled to gravity in this formulation and, in particular, how both the gravity
and Yang-Mills arise as sectors of a general diffeomorphism invariant gauge
theory. We finish by outlining a possible scenario of the UV completion of
quantum gravity within this approach. | | Source: | arXiv, 1202.6183 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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