Comments on MacDowell-Mansouri gravity and torsion

DOI10.1142/S0218271818500189MaRDI QIDQ5216038zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. C. López-Domínguez, J. E. Rosales-Quintero, Miguel Sabido

Publication date 14 February 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.1838

zbMATH Keywords

torsiongauge theories of gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: Starting with the MacDowell-Mansouri formulation of gravity with a $SO(4,1)$ gauge group, we introduce new parameters into the action to include the non-dynamical Holst term, and the topological Nieh-Yan and Pontryagin classes. Then, we consider the new parameters as fields and analyze the solutions coming from their equations of motion. The new fields introduce torsional contributions to the theory that modify Einstein's equations.

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