Characteristic classes in general relativity on a modified Poincaré curvature bundle

DOI10.1063/1.4990708MaRDI QIDQ5366986zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yoshimasa Kurihara

Publication date 10 October 2017

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01328

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological constantgeneral relativitycharacteristic classesEinstein-Hilbert actionsecond Chern-classspace-time manifoldsmodified Poincaré curvature bundletrace of an energy-momentum tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann-Roch theorems, Chern characters (19L10) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Characteristic classes in space-time manifolds are discussed for both even- and odd-dimensional spacetimes. In particular, it is shown that the Einstein--Hilbert action is equivalent to a second Chern-class on a modified Poincare bundle in four dimensions. Consequently, the cosmological constant and the trace of an energy-momentum tensor become divisible modulo R/Z.

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