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The Geometrical Trinity of Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-03-19 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

The geometrical nature of gravity emerges from the universality dictated by the equivalence principle. In the usual formulation of General Relativity, the geometrisation of the gravitational interaction is performed in terms of the spacetime curvature, which is now the standard interpretation of gravity. However, this is not the only possibility. In these notes we discuss two alternative, though equivalent, formulations of General Relativity in flat spacetimes, in which gravity is fully ascribed either to torsion or to non-metricity, thus putting forward the existence of three seemingly unrelated representations of the same underlying theory. Based on these three alternative formulations of General Relativity, we then discuss some extensions.

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@article{arxiv.1903.06830,
  title  = {The Geometrical Trinity of Gravity},
  author = {Jose Beltran Jimenez and Lavinia Heisenberg and Tomi S. Koivisto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.06830},
  year   = {2019}
}

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22 pages, 2 figures

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