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Five dimensional Chern-Simons Gravity for the expanded (anti)-de Sitter gauge group C$_5$

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-03-18 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the Hamiltonian dynamics of a five-dimensional Chern-Simons theory for the gauge algebra C5C_5 of Izaurieta, Rodriguez and Salgado, the so-called SH_H-expansion of the 5D (anti-)de Sitter algebra (a)ds, based on the cyclic group Z4\mathbb{Z}_4. The theory consists of a 1-form field containing the (a)ds gravitation variables and 1-form field transforming in the adjoint representation of (a)ds. The gravitational part of the action necessarily contains a term quadratic in the curvature, beyond the Einstein-Hilbert and cosmological terms, for any choice of the two independent coupling constants. The total action is also invariant under a new local symmetry, called "crossed diffeomorphisms", beyond the usual space-time diffeomorphisms. The number of physical degrees of freedom is computed. The theory is shown to be "generic" in the sense of Ba\~nados, Garay and Henneaux, i.e., the constraint associated to the time diffeomorphisms is not independent from the other constraints.

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@article{arxiv.1912.06634,
  title  = {Five dimensional Chern-Simons Gravity for the expanded (anti)-de Sitter gauge group C$_5$},
  author = {Matheus M. A. Paixão and Olivier Piguet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.06634},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

19 pages. Reference added. Small correction in Section 3, results unchanged. Published in Eur. Phys. J. C 80, 138 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1140