Symmetries of topological gravity with torsion in the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2010)075zbMATH Open1270.83034arXiv0912.1472MaRDI QIDQ360768FDOQ360768

Pradip Mukherjee, Sunandan Gangopadhyay, Debraj Roy, Rabin Banerjee

Publication date: 27 August 2013

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A systematic analysis of the symmetries of topological 3D gravity with torsion and a cosmological term, in the first order formalism, has been performed in details - both in the hamiltonian and lagrangian formalisms. This illuminates the connection between the symmetries of curved spacetime (diffeomorphisms plus local Lorentz transformations) with the Poincare gauge transformations. The Poincare gauge symmetries of the action are shown to be inequivalent to its gauge symmetries. Finally, the complete analysis is compared with the metric formulation where the diffeomorphism symmetry is shown to be equivalent to the gauge symmetry.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1472

zbMATH Keywords

classical theories of gravitygauge symmetryspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Symmetries and conservation laws in mechanics of particles and systems (70S10)

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