Towards a unification of gravity and Yang-Mills theory

Details Towards a unification of gravity and Yang-Mills theory Towards a unification of gravity and Yang-Mills theory

1994-01-25

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9401028v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.73:1195-1198,1994

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

7 pages, CGPG-94/1-3

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.1195

We introduce a gauge and diffeomorphism invariant theory on Yang-Mills phase space. The theory is well defined for an arbitrary gauge group with an invariant bilinear form, it contains only first class constraints, and the spacetime metric has a simple form in terms of the phase space variables. With gauge group $SO(3,C)$, the theory equals the Ashtekar formulation of gravity with a cosmological constant. For Lorentzian signature, the theory is complex, and we have not found any good reality conditions. In the Euclidean signature case, everything is real. In a weak field expansion around de Sitter spacetime, the theory is shown to give the conventional Yang-Mills theory to the lowest order in the fields.

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