INTERACTIONS OF A STRING INSPIRED GRAVITON FIELD

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Abstract: We continue to explore the possibility that the graviton in two dimensions is related to a quadratic differential that appears in the anomalous contribution of the gravitational effective action for chiral fermions. A higher dimensional analogue of this field might exist as well. We improve the defining action for this diffeomorphism tensor field and establish a principle for how it interacts with other fields and with point particles in any dimension. All interactions are related to the action of the diffeomorphism group. We discuss possible interpretations of this field.


This paper extends the authors' work on the diffeomorphism tensor field and investigates its interaction with matter fields. In previous papers the authors introduced a covariant field theory for a rank two tensor they called the diffeomorphism tensor that was based on the coadjoint representation of the Virasoro algebra. They found that ``in two dimensions one of the components of this rank two symmetric tensor is the quadratic differential that appears in the gravitational effective action for chiral fermions, and they were thus led to investigate the relationship of this field theory with two-dimensional gravity. They found that their approach led to the correct equations of motion, but some problems remained . Here they investigate the relationship between Lie derivatives and the Lagrangian for the diff (diffeomorphism) field and they improve the defining action for the diff field. Since the action presented here for the diff tensor exists not only in two dimensions but also in higher dimensions, the authors conclude that a higher dimensional analogue of the field might exist. In addition, they show how the diff field interacts with matter fields and study fermions, spin one couplings and point particle couplings. Finally, they discuss possible interpretations of the diff field.











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