Test matter in a spacetime with nonmetricity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/1A/020zbMATH Open0877.53070arXivgr-qc/9604047OpenAlexW1985864491MaRDI QIDQ4332352FDOQ4332352

Authors: Yuval Ne'eman, Friedrich W. Hehl 

Publication date: 13 February 1997

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

Abstract: Examples in which spacetime might become non-Riemannian appear above Planck energies in string theory or, in the very early universe, in the inflationary model. The simplest such geometry is metric-affine geometry, in which {it nonmetricity} appears as a field strength, side by side with curvature and torsion. In matter, the shear and dilation currents couple to nonmetricity, and they are its sources. After reviewing the equations of motion and the Noether identities, we study two recent vacuum solutions of the metric-affine gauge theory of gravity. We then use the values of the nonmetricity in these solutions to study the motion of the appropriate test-matter. As a Regge-trajectory like hadronic excitation band, the test matter is endowed with shear degrees of freedom and described by a world spinor.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9604047

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zbMATH Keywords

equations of motionNoether identitiesmetric-affine gauge theories of gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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