Background geometry in the gauge theory of gravity

DOI10.1007/BF02575449MaRDI QIDQ1567907zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 16 January 2001

Published in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9709054

gauge theory of gravitation Logunov theory

Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Dirac fermion fields are responsible for spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge gravitation theory because the spin structure associated with a tetrad field is not preserved under general covariant transformations. Two solutions of this problem can be suggested. (i) There exists the universal spin structure

S o X

such that any spin structure

S^{h} o X

associated with a tetrad field

h

is a subbundle of the bundle

S o X

. In this model, gravitational fields correspond to different tetrad (or metric) fields. (ii) A background tetrad field

h

and the associated spin structure

S^{h}

are fixed, while gravitational fields are identified with additional tensor fields

q^{l} a_{m}

describing deviations

w t h^{l} a_{a} = q^{l} a_{m} h_{a}^{m}

of

h

. One can think of

w t h

as being effective tetrad fields. We show that there exist gauge transformations which keep the background tetrad field

h

and act on the effective fields by the general covariant transformation law. We come to Logunov's Relativistic Theory of Gravity generalized to dynamic connections and fermion fields.

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