Generalized gauge theories with nonunitary parallel transport: * general relativity with cosmological constant as an example

DOI10.1140/EPJC/S2005-02443-2MaRDI QIDQ982816zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Martínez

Publication date 27 July 2010

Published in The European Physical Journal C. Particles and Fields (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0508249

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In gauge theories parallel transporters (PTs) U(C) along paths C play an important role. Traditionally they are unitary or pseudoorthogonal maps between vector spaces. We propose to abandon unitarity of parallel transporters and with it the a priori assumption of metricity in general relativity. A *-operation on parallel transporters serves as a substitute for it, and this *-operation is proven to be unique on group theoretical grounds. The vierbein and the spin connection appear as distinguishable parts of a single de Sitter gauge field with field strength F. The action takes the form $frac316piGLambdainttr(FwedgeFigamm{a}_5)$ and both the Einstein field equations with arbitrarily small but nonvanishing cosmological constant $Lambda$ and the condition of vanishing torsion are obtained from it. The equation of motion for classical massive bodies turns out to be de Sitter covariant.

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