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Nonexistence of a parent theory for general relativity and unimodular gravity
| العنوان: | Nonexistence of a parent theory for general relativity and unimodular gravity |
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| المؤلفون: | García-Moreno, Gerardo, Cano, Alejandro Jiménez |
| المصدر: | Phys. Rev. D 109, 104004 (2024) |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Theory |
| الوصف: | General Relativity (GR) and Unimodular Gravity (UG) provide two equivalent descriptions of gravity that differ in the nature of the cosmological constant. While GR is based on the group of diffeomorphisms that permits the cosmological constant in the action, UG is based on the subgroup of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms together with Weyl transformations which forbid the presence of the cosmological constant. However, the cosmological constant reappears in UG as an integration constant so it arises as a global degree of freedom. Since gauge symmetries are simply redundancies in our description of physical systems, a natural question is whether there exists a "parent theory" with the full diffeomorphisms and Weyl transformations as gauge symmetries so that it reduces to GR and UG respectively by performing suitable (partial) gauge fixings. We will explore this question by introducing Stueckelberg fields both in GR and UG to complete the gauge symmetries in each theory to that of the would-be parent theory. Despite the dynamical equivalence of the two theories, we find that precisely the additional global degree of freedom provided by the cosmological constant in UG obstructs the construction of the parent theory. Comment: 29 pages, no figures, no tables; v2: Matches the published version. Some clarifications are added |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.104004 |
| الوصول الحر: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06903Test |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsarx.2309.06903 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.109.104004 |
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