On unitarity of a Yang-Mills type formulation for massless and massive gravity with propagating torsion

Details On unitarity of a Yang-Mills type formulation for massless and massive gravity with propagating torsion On unitarity of a Yang-Mills type formulation for massless and massive gravity with propagating torsion

2010-05-20

arxiv.org/abs/1005.3679v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

28 p

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A perturbative regime based on contorsion as a dynamical variable and metric as a (classical) fixed background, is performed in the context of a pure Yang-Mills formulation based on $GL(3,R)$ gauge group. In the massless case we show that the theory propagates three degrees of freedom and only one is a non-unitary mode. Next, we introduce quadratical terms dependent on torsion, which preserve parity and general covariance. The linearized version reproduces an analogue Hilbert-Einstein-Fierz-Pauli unitary massive theory plus three massless modes, two of them non-unitary ones. Finally we confirm the existence of a family of unitary Yang-Mills-extended theories which are classically consistent with Einstein's solutions coming from non massive and topologically massive gravity.

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