Quadratic gravity from BF theory in two and three dimensions

DOI10.1007/S10714-015-1937-XzbMath1327.83204OpenAlexW1949865044MaRDI QIDQ501125

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 9 October 2015

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-015-1937-x

zbMATH Keywords

Lie algebrasBF theoryquadratic gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological characterizations of particular spaces (54F65) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Lie algebras of linear algebraic groups (17B45)

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Cites Work

• On the relations between gravity and BF theories
• On the expansion of a quantum field theory around a topological sector
• On quantum gauge theories in two dimensions
• Gravity from a fermionic condensate of a gauge theory
• Eleven-dimensional supergravity as a constrained topological field theory

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