Gravitation and spatial conformal invariance

Details Gravitation and spatial conformal invariance Gravitation and spatial conformal invariance

2012-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/1201.2725v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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It is well-known that General Relativity with positive cosmological constant can be formulated as a gauge theory with a broken SO(1,4) symmetry. This symmetry is broken by the presence of an internal space-like vector $V^A$, $A=0,...,4$, with SO(1,3) as a residual invariance group. Attempts to ascribe dynamics to the field $V^{A}$ have been made in the literature but so far with limited success. Regardless of this issue we can take the view that $V^A$ might actually vary across spacetime and in particular become null or time-like. In this paper we will study the case where $V^A$ is null. This is shown to correspond to a Lorentz violating modified theory of gravity. Using the isomorphism between the de Sitter group and the spatial conformal group, $SO(1,4)\simeq C(3)$, we show that the resulting gravitational field equations are invariant under all the symmetries, but spatial translations, of the conformal group C(3).

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