HIGHER GAUGE THEORY AND GRAVITY IN 2+1 DIMENSIONS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X07037330MaRDI QIDQ3500360zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert B. Mann, Eugeniu M. Popescu

Publication date 3 June 2008

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0607076

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theorygravityhigher gauge theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: Non-abelian higher gauge theory has recently emerged as a generalization of standard gauge theory to higher dimensional (2-dimensional in the present context) connection forms, and as such, it has been successfully applied to the non-abelian generalizations of the Yang-Mills theory and 2-form electrodynamics. (2+1)-dimensional gravity, on the other hand, has been a fertile testing ground for many concepts related to classical and quantum gravity, and it is therefore only natural to investigate whether we can find an application of higher gauge theory in this latter context. In the present paper we investigate the possibility of applying the formalism of higher gauge theory to gravity in (2+1) dimensions, and we show that a nontrivial model of (2+1)-dimensional gravity coupled to scalar and tensorial matter fields - the $SigmaPhiEA$ model - can be formulated both as a standard gauge theory and as a higher gauge theory. Since the model has a very rich structure - it admits as solutions black-hole BTZ-like geometries, particle-like geometries as well as Robertson-Friedman-Walker cosmological-like expanding geometries - this opens a wide perspective for higher gauge theory to be tested and understood in a relevant gravitational context. Additionally, it offers the possibility of studying gravity in (2+1) dimensions coupled to matter in an entirely new framework.

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• Higher gauge theory and a non-abelian generalization of 2-form electrodynamics.
• Higher-derivative theory of (2+ 1)-dimensional gravity
• SU(2)\(\times\)U(1) gauge gravity
• Higher gauge theories based on 3-groups
• Teleparallel gravity as a higher gauge theory
• Higher-order theories from the minimal length
• Topological higher gauge theory: From BF to BFCG theory
• Gauge fixing in higher-derivative gravity
• Conformal gauge theory of (2+1)-dimensional gravity
• Scalar and tensorial topological matter coupled to (2 + 1)-dimensional gravity: I. Classical theory and global charges
• Gauge symmetry of the 3BF theory for a generic semistrict Lie three-group
• Gauge theory at large N and new G₂ holonomy metrics
• Higher Chern-Simons-Antoniadis-Savvidy forms based on crossed modules
• A quantization of \((2+1)\)-gravity related to high-energy Yang-Mills theory

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