Graphical classification of global SO(n) invariants and independent general invariants

DOI10.1063/1.532183zbMATH Open0914.53053arXivhep-th/9702003OpenAlexW2113857538MaRDI QIDQ4384791FDOQ4384791

Authors: Shoichi Ichinose, Noriaki Ikeda 

Publication date: 24 June 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper treats some basic points in general relativity and in its perturbative analysis. Firstly a systematic classification of global SO(n) invariants, which appear in the weak-field expansion of n-dimensional gravitational theories, is presented. Through the analysis, we explain the following points: a) a graphical representation is introduced to express invariants clearly; b) every graph of invariants is specified by a set of indices; c) a number, called weight, is assigned to each invariant. It expresses the symmetry with respect to the suffix-permutation within an invariant. Interesting relations among the weights of invariants are given. Those relations show the consistency and the completeness of the present classification; d) some reduction procedures are introduced in graphs for the purpose of classifying them. Secondly the above result is applied to the proof of the independence of general invariants with the mass-dimension $M^6$ for the general geometry in a general space dimension. We take a graphical representation for general invariants too. Finally all relations depending on each space-dimension are systematically obtained for 2, 4 and 6 dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9702003

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativitygraphical representationperturbative analysisclassification of global \(SO(n)\) invariantsweights of invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25)

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• Normal forms for tensor polynomials. I. The Riemann tensor
• Weyl cocycles
• Graphical representation of invariants and covariants in general relativity

Cited In (2)

• Weyl anomaly in higher dimensions and Feynman rules in coordinate space
• WEAK FIELD EXPANSION OF GRAVITY: GRAPHS, MATRICES AND TOPOLOGY

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