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AdS Chern-Simons Gravity induces Conformal Gravity

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-06-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The leitmotif of this paper is the question of whether four- and higher even-dimensional Conformal Gravities do have a Chern-Simons pedigree. We show that Weyl gravity can be obtained as dimensional reduction of a five-dimensional Chern-Simons action for a suitable (gauged-fixed, tractor-like) five-dimensional AdS connection. The gauge-fixing and dimensional reduction program admits a readily generalization to higher dimensions for the case of certain conformal gravities obtained by contractions of the Weyl tensor.

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@article{arxiv.1311.5364,
  title  = {AdS Chern-Simons Gravity induces Conformal Gravity},
  author = {Rodrigo Aros and Danilo E. Diaz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.5364},
  year   = {2015}
}

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13 pages, references added, typos corrected

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