First-order discrete Faddeev gravity at strongly varying fields

DOI10.1142/S0217732317501814MaRDI QIDQ3130349zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. M. Khatsymovsky

Publication date 22 January 2018

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02035

zbMATH Keywords

composite metricconnectionEinstein theory of gravityFaddeev gravitylattice gravityminisuperspace modelpiecewise flat spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We consider the Faddeev formulation of general relativity (GR), which can be characterized by a kind of $d$-dimensional tetrad (typically $d$=10) and a non-Riemannian connection. This theory is invariant w. r. t. the global, but not local, rotations in the $d$-dimensional space. There can be configurations with a smooth or flat metric, but with the tetrad that changes abruptly at small distances, a kind of "antiferromagnetic" structure. Previously, we discussed a first order representation for the Faddeev gravity, which uses the orthogonal connection in the $d$-dimensional space as an independent variable. Using the discrete form of this formulation, we considered the spectrum of (elementary) area. This spectrum turns out to be physically reasonable just on a classical background with large connection like rotations by $pi$, that is, with such an "antiferromagnetic" structure. In the discrete first order Faddeev gravity, we consider such a structure with periodic cells and large connection and strongly changing tetrad field inside the cell. We show that this system in the continuum limit reduces to a generalization of the Faddeev system. The action is a sum of related actions of the Faddeev type and is still reduced to the GR action.

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