Some Mathematical Issues Pertaining to Translational Gauge Theories
| dc.creator | Delphenich, David | |
| dc.date | 2004-01-15 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:28:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:28:24Z | |
| dc.description | Some mathematical aspects of using the translation group as an internal symmetry group in a gauge field theory are presented and discussed. The traditional manner in which gravitation can be accounted for by the introduction of a global frame field on a parallelizable spacetime is reviewed. It is then discussed in the more general context of a global frame field on the bundle of linear frames. In the process, the elements of variational field theory for physical fields defined on G-structures are set down. It is suggested that it is probably more proper to attribute gravitation to a reduction of the bundle of linear frames to {e} -- at least over a generic submanifold of spacetime -- than to a reduction to the Lorentz group since the Lorentz group is more intrinsic to electromagnetism and gravitation has the character of a "residual" symmetry of spacetime at the astrophysical level. | |
| dc.description | 34 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0401066 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0401066 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/34813 | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.title | Some Mathematical Issues Pertaining to Translational Gauge Theories | |
| dc.type | text |