On unitarity of a linearized Yang -- Mills formulation for massless and massive gravity with propagating torsion

DOI10.1142/S0217751X10050561zbMATH Open1202.83098arXiv1009.0455OpenAlexW3101611208MaRDI QIDQ3065600FDOQ3065600

Authors: Rolando Gaitan Deveras 

Publication date: 6 January 2011

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A perturbative regime based on contortion as a dynamical variable and metric as a (classical) fixed background, is performed in the context of a pure Yang-Mills formulation for gravity in a $2+1$ dimensional space-time. In the massless case we show that the theory contains three degrees of freedom and only one is a non-unitary mode. Next, we introduce quadratical terms dependent on torsion, which preserve parity and general covariance. The linearized version reproduces an analogue Hilbert-Einstein-Fierz-Pauli unitary massive theory plus three massless modes, two of them represents non-unitary ones. Finally we confirm the existence of a family of unitary Yang-Mills-extended theories which are classically consistent with Einstein's solutions coming from non massive and topologically massive gravity. The unitarity of these YM-extended theories is shown in a perturbative regime. A possible way to perform a non-perturbative study is remarked.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1009.0455

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zbMATH Keywords

gravitygaugeunitarity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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• Lorentz Invariance and the Gravitational Field
• New general relativity
• A minimal model of Lorentz gauge gravity with dynamical torsion
• The first-order formalism for Yang-Mills theory
• Torsion as a dynamic degree of freedom of quantum gravity

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• On Unitarity of Massive Gravity in Three Dimensions
• A noncompact Weyl-Einstein-Yang-Mills model: A semiclassical quantum gravity

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