Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1994-02-04
Phys.Rept.258:1-171,1995
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
197 pages
Scientific paper
10.1016/0370-1573(94)00111-F
In Einstein's gravitational theory, the spacetime is Riemannian, that is, it has vanishing torsion and vanishing nonmetricity (covariant derivative of the metric). In the gauging of the general affine group ${A}(4,R)$ and of its subgroup ${GL}(4,R)$ in four dimensions, energy--momentum and hypermomentum currents of matter are canonically coupled to the one--form basis and to the connection of a metric--affine spacetime with nonvanishing torsion and nonmetricity, respectively. Fermionic matter can be described in this framework by half--integer representations of the $\overline{SL}(4,R)$ covering subgroup. --- We set up a (first--order) Lagrangian formalism and build up the corresponding Noether machinery. For an arbitrary gauge Lagrangian, the three gauge field equations come out in a suggestive Yang-Mills like form. The conservation--type differential identities for energy--momentum and hypermomentum and the corresponding complexes and superpotentials are derived. Limiting cases such as the Einstein--Cartan theory are discussed. In particular we show, how the ${A}(4,R)$ may ``break down'' to the Poincar\'e (inhomogeneous Lorentz) group. In this context, we present explicit models for a symmetry breakdown in the cases of the Weyl (or homothetic) group, the ${SL}(4,R)$, or the ${GL}(4,R)$.
Hehl Friedrich W.
McCrea Dermott J.
Ne'eman Yuval
~Mielke Eckehard W.
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