Lecture on Gauge Gravitation Theory. Gravity as a Higgs Field
Mathematical Physics
2016-06-29 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Abstract
Gravitation theory is formulated as gauge theory on natural bundles with spontaneous symmetry breaking where gauge symmetries are general covariant transformations, gauge fields are general linear connections, and Higgs fields are pseudo-Riemannian metrics.
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@article{arxiv.1602.06776,
title = {Lecture on Gauge Gravitation Theory. Gravity as a Higgs Field},
author = {G. Sardanashvily},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06776},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
46 pages, Invited lecture at the 20th International Summer School on Global Analysis and its Applications. General Relativity: 100 years after Hilbert (Stara Lesna, Slovakia, 2015)