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Presymplectic AKSZ formulation of Einstein gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-13 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Any local gauge theory can be represented as an AKSZ sigma model (upon parameterization if necessary). However, for non-topological models in dimension higher than 1 the target space is necessarily infinite-dimensional. The interesting alternative known for some time is to allow for degenerate presymplectic structure in the target space. This leads to a very concise AKSZ-like representation for frame-like Lagrangians of gauge systems. In this work we concentrate on Einstein gravity and show that not only the Lagrangian but also the full-scale Batalin--Vilkovisky formulation is naturally encoded in the presymplectic AKSZ formulation, giving an elegant supergeometrical construction of BV for Cartan-Weyl action. The same applies to the main structures of the respective Hamiltonian BFV formulation.

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@article{arxiv.2008.11690,
  title  = {Presymplectic AKSZ formulation of Einstein gravity},
  author = {Maxim Grigoriev and Alexei Kotov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.11690},
  year   = {2021}
}

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