Projective and volume-preserving bundle structures involved in the formulation of A(4) gauge theories (Q1069478)

For a given nonsymmetric connection on a space-time manifold a projective transformation is one that preserves parallelism, while a connection is said to be volume-preserving if it admits tele-parallelism for scalar densities. In this paper the bundle structure required by volume- preserving connections and related projective properties are developed in detail in the context of A(4) gauge theories, the latter being deemed to be the proper framework for Poincaré gauge theories. The concept of projective invariance breaking is analyzed, after which the formulation of local particle number type conservation laws is discussed with special reference to conservation laws for the case of certain nonsymmetric connections that appear as extensions of the connections which have occurred in Einstein's nonsymmetric generalization of gravitational theory. According to the authors the appropriate arena for this analysis is a principal fibre bundle with structural group Gl(4,\({\mathbb{R}})\times Gl(4,{\mathbb{R}})\). The results thus obtained are compared with known gravitational theories based on nonsymmetric connections, including metric-affine theories.