Gravity with more or less gauging

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作者
Gielen, Steffen [1 ]
Ardon, Rodrigo de Leon [2 ,3 ]
Percacci, Roberto [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Nottingham, Sch Math Sci, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England
[2] Scuola Int Super Studi Avanzati, Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy
[3] INFN, Sez Trieste, Trieste, Italy
关键词
Weyl invariance; dilaton gravity; unimodular gravity; quantum gravity; CONFORMAL ANOMALIES; MACHS PRINCIPLE; QUANTUM; INVARIANCE; FLOW;
D O I
10.1088/1361-6382/aadbd1
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
General relativity is usually formulated as a theory with gauge invariance under the diffeomorphism group, but there is a 'dilaton' formulation where it is in addition invariant under Weyl transformations, and a 'unimodular' formulation where it is only invariant under the smaller group of special diffeomorphisms. Other formulations with the same number of gauge generators, but a different gauge algebra, also exist. These different formulations provide examples of what we call 'inessential gauge invariance', 'symmetry trading' and 'linking theories'; they are locally equivalent, but may differ when global properties of the solutions are considered. We discuss these notions in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism.
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