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General Relativity from a gauged WZW term

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this paper two things are done. First it is shown how a four dimensional gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten term arises from the five dimensional Einstein-Hilbert plus Gauss-Bonnet lagrangian with a special choice of the coefficients. Second, the way in which the equations of motion of four-dimensional General Relativity arise is exhibited.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0610136,
  title  = {General Relativity from a gauged WZW term},
  author = {Andres Anabalon and Steven Willison and Jorge Zanelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0610136},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure. v2: Minor changes in section 1 and 2. Section 3, rewritten

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