Metric projective geometry, BGG detour complexes and partially massless gauge theories

DOI10.1007/S00220-015-2490-XzbMATH Open1338.53029arXiv1409.6778OpenAlexW3099657698WikidataQ126279854 ScholiaQ126279854MaRDI QIDQ5963763FDOQ5963763

Andrew K. Waldron, E. Latini, Rod Gover

Publication date: 23 February 2016

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

Abstract: A projective geometry is an equivalence class of torsion free connections sharing the same unparametrised geodesics; this is a basic structure for understanding physical systems. Metric projective geometry is concerned with the interaction of projective and pseudo-Riemannian geometry. We show that the BGG machinery of projective geometry combines with structures known as Yang-Mills detour complexes to produce a general tool for generating invariant pseudo-Riemannian gauge theories. This produces (detour) complexes of differential operators corresponding to gauge invariances and dynamics. We show, as an application, that curved versions of these sequences give geometric characterizations of the obstructions to propagation of higher spins in Einstein spaces. Further, we show that projective BGG detour complexes generate both gauge invariances and gauge invariant constraint systems for partially massless models: the input for this machinery is a projectively invariant gauge operator corresponding to the first operator of a certain BGG sequence. We also connect this technology to the log-radial reduction method and extend the latter to Einstein backgrounds.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.6778

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zbMATH Keywords

projective geometryEinstein spacesBGG sequencesYang-Mills complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Projective connections (53B10)

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