Einstein gravity as a gauge theory for the conformal group

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/ac3e53zbMath1484.83002arXiv2011.00945OpenAlexW3217225947MaRDI QIDQ5023541

Yannick Herfray, Carlos Scarinci

Publication date: 24 January 2022

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.00945

zbMATH Keywords

gauge theoryconformal groupactiontractorfirst orderclassical gravityasymptotically simple space-times

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equivariant fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R91) Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs (35A35) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15)

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