Deformation of Gauge Groups. Gravitation
May, 197828 pages
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- J.Math.Phys. 20 (1979) 2264-2271
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- UCLA/78/TEP/6
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This is a review, and an attempt at completion, of the ’’Gupta program,’’ the ultimate goal of which is e i t h e r to show that Einstein’s theory of gravitation is the only self‐consistent field theory of interacting, massless, spin‐2 particles in flat space o r to discover interesting alternatives. It is useful to notice that the gauge group of general relativity is a deformation (in a mathematically precise sense) of the gauge group associated with the massless, spin‐2 free field. The uniqueness of Einstein’s theory depends on the stability of its gauge group with respect to a class of differentiable deformations. A generalized Gupta program for massless fields of arbitrary spins is proposed.- GAUGE FIELD THEORY
- GRAVITATION
- GROUP THEORY: GAUGE
- MATHEMATICS
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