Gravity with more or less gauging

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AADBD1MaRDI QIDQ3120921zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Steffen Gielen, Rodrigo de León Ardón, R. Percacci

Publication date 19 March 2019

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11626, http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/151728/1/1805.11626.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

Dilaton gravityquantum gravityunimodular gravityWeyl invariance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic dynamics for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: General Relativity is usually formulated as a theory with gauge invariance under the diffeomorphism group, but there is a 'dilaton' formulation where it is in addition invariant under Weyl transformations, and a 'unimodular' formulation where it is only invariant under the smaller group of special diffeomorphisms. Other formulations with the same number of gauge generators, but a different gauge algebra, also exist. These different formulations provide examples of what we call 'inessential gauge invariance', 'symmetry trading' and 'linking theories'; they are locally equivalent, but may differ when global properties of the solutions are considered. We discuss these notions in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism.

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