Unimodular gauge in perturbative gravity and supergravity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135591zbMATH Open1473.83027arXiv2004.05950OpenAlexW3016119953MaRDI QIDQ822409FDOQ822409

Authors: Laurent Baulieu 

Publication date: 22 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper explains the Unimodular gauge fixing of gravity and supergravity in the framework of a perturbative BRST construction. The unphysical sector contains additional BRST-exact quartets to suppress possible ambiguities and impose both the Unimodular gauge fixing condition on the metric and a gauge condition for the reparametrization symmetry of the unimodular part of the metric. The Unimodular gauge choice of the metric must be completed by a $gamma$-Traceless gauge condition for the Rarita--Schwinger field in the case of supergravity. This gives an interesting new class of gauges for gravity and supergravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05950

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Supergravity (83E50) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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• Losing the trace to find dynamical Newton or Planck constants
• The cosmological constant as a boundary term

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