The role of nonmetricity in metric-affine theories of gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/4/045006zbMATH Open1286.83088arXiv1308.1642OpenAlexW2064452396MaRDI QIDQ5413752FDOQ5413752

Authors: Vincenzo Vitagliano 

Publication date: 30 April 2014

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

Abstract: The intriguing choice to treat alternative theories of gravity by means of the Palatini approach, namely elevating the affine connection to the role of independent variable, contains the seed of some interesting (usually under-explored) generalizations of General Relativity, the metric-affine theories of gravity. The peculiar aspect of these theories is to provide a natural way for matter fields to be coupled to the independent connection through the covariant derivative built from the connection itself. Adopting a procedure borrowed from the effective field theory prescriptions, we study the dynamics of metric-affine theories of increasing order, that in the complete version include invariants built from curvature, nonmetricity and torsion. We show that even including terms obtained from nonmetricity and torsion to the second order density Lagrangian, the connection lacks dynamics and acts as an auxiliary field that can be algebraically eliminated, resulting in some extra interactions between metric and matter fields.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.1642

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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