Classical gauge theory of gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The classical theory of gravity is formulated as a gauge theory on a frame bundle with spontaneous symmetry breaking caused by the existence of Dirac fermionic fields. The pseudo-Riemannian metric (tetrad field) is the corresponding Higgs field. We consider two variants of this theory. In the first variant, gravity is represented by the pseudo-Riemannian metric as in general relativity theory; in the second variant, it is represented by the effective metric as in the Logunov relativistic theory of gravity. The configuration space, Dirac operator, and Lagrangians are constructed for both variants.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0208054,
title = {Classical gauge theory of gravity},
author = {G. Sardanashvily},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0208054},
year = {2007}
}
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