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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}
}

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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)