Quantization of four-dimensional Abelian gravity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
An abelian version of standard general relativity in the Cartan-Palatini gauge-like formulation in four dimensions has been introduced. Traditional canonical analysis utilizing similarities to the akin Husain-Kuchar SU(2) version of gravity has been performed. The model has been next quantized in the canonical path-integral Faddeev-Popov formalism yielding abelian BF theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0702148,
title = {Quantization of four-dimensional Abelian gravity},
author = {Bogusław Broda and Piotr Bronowski and Marcin Ostrowski and Michał Szanecki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0702148},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Minor changes, additional symmetry discussed. 5 pages, 2 columns, REVTeX 4