The affine structure of gravitational theories: Symplectic groups and geometry

DOI10.1142/S0219887814500819zbMATH Open1329.83150arXiv1401.6555WikidataQ63380425 ScholiaQ63380425MaRDI QIDQ3453376FDOQ3453376

Authors: Diego Julio Cirilo-Lombardo, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Salvatore Capozziello 

Publication date: 20 November 2015

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

Abstract: We give a geometrical description of gravitational theories from the viewpoint of symmetries and affine structure. We show how gravity, considered as a gauge theory, can be consistently achieved by the nonlinear realization of the conformal-affine group in an indirect manner: due the partial isomorphism between $CAleft(3,1ight)$ and the centrally extended $Spleft(8ight)$, we perform a nonlinear realization of the centrally extended (CE)$Spleft(8ight)$ in its semi-simple version. In particular, starting from the bundle structure of gravity, we derive the conformal-affine Lie algebra and then, by the non-linear realization, we define the coset field transformations, the Cartan forms and the inverse Higgs constraints. Finally we discuss the geometrical Lagrangians where all the information on matter fields and their interactions can be contained.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.6555

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zbMATH Keywords

gravityconformal groupaffine geometrybundle structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45)

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