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Yang-Mills gravity in biconformal space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v3

Abstract

We write a gravity theory with Yang-Mills type action using the biconformal gauging of the conformal group. We show that the resulting biconformal Yang-Mills gravity theories describe 4-dim, scale-invariant general relativity in the case of slowly changing fields. In addition, we systematically extend arbitrary 4-dim Yang-Mills theories to biconformal space, providing a new arena for studying flat space Yang-Mills theories. By applying the biconformal extension to a 4-dim pure Yang-Mills theory with conformal symmetry, we establish a 1-1, onto mapping between a set of gravitational gauge theories and 4-dim, flat space gauge theories.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0412293,
  title  = {Yang-Mills gravity in biconformal space},
  author = {Lara B. Anderson and James T. Wheeler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0412293},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

27 pages; paper emphasis shifted to focus on gravity; references added

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