4D spin-2 fields from 5D Chern-Simons theory

Albornoz, N. L. Gonzalez; Lüst, Dieter; Salgado, S. und Schmidt-May, A. (2018): 4D spin-2 fields from 5D Chern-Simons theory. In: Journal of High Energy Physics, Nr. 12, 26

Abstract

We consider a 5-dimensional Chern-Simons gauge theory for the isometry group of Anti-de-Sitter spacetime, AdS(4+1) similar or equal to SO(4, 2), and invoke different dimensional reduction schemes in order to relate it to 4-dimensional spin-2 theories. The AdS gauge algebra is isomorphic to a parametrized 4-dimensional conformal algebra, and the gauge fields corresponding to the generators of non-Abelian translations and special conformal transformations reduce to two vierbein fields in D = 4. Besides these two vierbeine, our reduction schemes leave only the Lorentz spin connection as an additional dynamical field in the 4-dimensional theories. We identify the corresponding actions as particular generalizations of Einstein-Cartan theory, conformal gravity and ghost-free bimetric gravity in first-order form.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Physik
• Themengebiete: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• Sprache: Englisch