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

DOI10.1140/EPJC/S2005-02443-2zbMATH Open1191.83054arXivhep-th/0508249OpenAlexW2071476702MaRDI QIDQ982816FDOQ982816

Authors: J. Martínez 

Publication date: 27 July 2010

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

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.

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

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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