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Invariant conserved currents in gravity theories: diffeomorphisms and local gauge symmetries

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Previously, we have developed a general method to construct invariant conserved currents and charges in gravitational theories with Lagrangians that are invariant under spacetime diffeomorphisms and local Lorentz transformations. This approach is now generalized to the case when the local Lorentz group is replaced by an arbitrary local gauge group. The particular examples include the Maxwell and Yang-Mills fields coupled to gravity with Abelian and non-Abelian local internal symmetries, and the metric-affine gravity in which the local Lorentz spacetime group is extended to the local general linear group.

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@article{arxiv.0712.3547,
  title  = {Invariant conserved currents in gravity theories: diffeomorphisms and local gauge symmetries},
  author = {Yuri N. Obukhov and Guillermo F. Rubilar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.3547},
  year   = {2008}
}

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28 pages, Revtex