Gielen, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-8653-5430, de León Ardón, R. and Percacci, R.
(2018)
Gravity with more or less gauging.
Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35 (19).
ISSN 0264-9381
Abstract
General relativity is usually formulated as a theory with gauge invariance under the diffeomorphism group, but there is a 'dilaton' formulation where it is in addition invariant under Weyl transformations, and a 'unimodular' formulation where it is only invariant under the smaller group of special diffeomorphisms. Other formulations with the same number of gauge generators, but a different gauge algebra, also exist. These different formulations provide examples of what we call 'inessential gauge invariance', 'symmetry trading' and 'linking theories'; they are locally equivalent, but may differ when global properties of the solutions are considered. We discuss these notions in the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalism.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Weyl invariance; dilation gravity; unimodular gravity; quantum gravity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Mathematics and Statistics (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 04 Oct 2019 08:53 |
Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2019 17:29 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1361-6382/aadbd1 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:151728 |