Topological Gravity on $(D,N)-$Shift Superspace Formulation
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-08-09 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
In this contribution, we re-assess the subject of topological gravity by following the Shift Supersymmetry formalism. The gauge-fixing of the theory goes under the Batallin-Vilkovisky (BV) prescription based on a diagram that contains both ghost and anti-ghost superfields, associated to the super-vielbein and the super-Lorentz connection. We extend the formulation of the topological gravity action to an arbitrary number of dimensions of the shift superspace by adopting a formulation based on the gauge-fixing for BF-type models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1710.04181,
title = {Topological Gravity on $(D,N)-$Shift Superspace Formulation},
author = {José A. Lourenço and José A. Helayël Neto and Wesley Spalenza},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04181},
year = {2018}
}