Topological symmetry-restored phase of gravity

Autor:	Sadovski, Guilherme, Sobreiro, Rodrigo F.
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	In this work, we propose a topological quantum field theory phase for four-dimensional gravity. We show it is able to generate, not only General Relativity, but the whole family of Lovelock-Cartan theories of gravity. This is accomplished due to the existence of a topological symmetry that, when explicitly broken, via the introduction of a mass scale, releases the local degrees of freedom of gravity. Additionally, we introduce an extended notion of the (anti-)self-dual Landau gauge conditions to evaluate the Ward identities, counterterms, and prove the quantum stability of the model, to all orders in perturbation theory, using the algebraic renormalization technique. Comment: 22 pp
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02884 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv