Translational spacetime symmetries in gravitational theories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/3/012zbMATH Open1087.83056arXiv1804.06730OpenAlexW3104873200MaRDI QIDQ3376741FDOQ3376741

Authors: Richard J. Petti 

Publication date: 24 March 2006

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

Abstract: How to include spacetime translations in fibre bundle gauge theories has been a subject of controversy, because spacetime symmetries are not internal symmetries of the bundle structure group. The standard method for including affine symmetry in differential geometry is to define a Cartan connection on an affine bundle over spacetime. This is equivalent to (1) defining an affine connection on the affine bundle, (2) defining a zero section on the associated affine vector bundle, and (3) using the affine connection and the zero section to define an "associated solder form," whose lift to a tensorial form on the frame bundle becomes the solder form. The zero section reduces the affine bundle to a linear bundle and splits the affine connection into translational and homogeneous parts; however it violates translational equivariance / gauge symmetry. This is the natural geometric framework for Einstein-Cartan theory as an affine theory of gravitation. The last section discusses some alternative approaches that claim to preserve translational gauge symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06730

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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• Cartan gravity, matter fields, and the gauge principle
• Translational invariance of the Einstein-Cartan action in any dimension
• Geometric foundations of Cartan gauge gravity
• Derivation of Einstein–Cartan theory from general relativity
• Nonlinear gauge realization of spacetime symmetries including translations
• Space-time symmetry and quantum Yang-Mills gravity. How space-time translational gauge symmetry enables the unification of gravity with other forces
• TRANSLATIONS AND DYNAMICS

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