Area Preserving Diffeomorphisms and 2-d Gravity

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1995-10-19

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9510147v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

25 pages, LaTeX

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Area preserving diffeomorphisms of a 2-d compact Riemannian manifold with or without boundary are studied. We find two classes of decompositions of a Riemannian metric, namely, h- and g-decomposition, that help to formulate a gravitational theory which is area preserving diffeomorphism (SDiff$M$-) invariant but not necessarily diffeomorphism invariant. The general covariance of equations of motion of such a theory can be achieved by incorporating proper Weyl rescaling. The h-decomposition makes the conformal factor of a metric SDiff$M$-invariant and the rest of the metric invariant under conformal diffeomorphisms, whilst the g-decomposition makes the conformal factor a SDiff$M$ scalar and the rest a SDiff$M$ tensor. Using these, we reformulate Liouville gravity in SDiff$M$ invariant way. In this context we also further clarify the dual formulation of Liouville gravity introduced by the author before, in which the affine spin connection is dual to the Liouville field.

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