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Internal Symmetry of Space-Time Connections with Torsion

General Physics 2014-11-21 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In this brief article an internal symmetry of a generic metric compatible space-time connection, metric and generalized volume element is introduced. The symmetry arises naturally by considering a space-time connection containing a generic torsion tensor, and would otherwise be missed in the absence of torsion. When the transformation is applied to the Hilbert-Einstein action it is shown that by a choice of gauge all possible field theories arising from the Hilbert-Einstein action are equivalent to the standard theory of gravity described by general relativity.

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@article{arxiv.1411.5568,
  title  = {Internal Symmetry of Space-Time Connections with Torsion},
  author = {David Robert Bergman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.5568},
  year   = {2014}
}

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10 pages double spaced