Spin-2 gauge theories and perturbative gauge invariance
| dc.creator | Scharf, G. | |
| dc.creator | Wellmann, M. | |
| dc.date | 1999-03-05 | |
| dc.date | 1999-11-16 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:26:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:26:05Z | |
| dc.description | In the framework of causal perturbation theory we analyze the gauge structure of a massless self-interacting quantum tensor field. We look at this theory from a pure field theoretical point of view without assuming any geometrical aspect from general relativity. To first order in the perturbation expansion of the $S$-matrix we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for such a theory to be gauge invariant, by which we mean that the gauge variation of the self-coupling with respect to the gauge charge operator $Q$ is a divergence in the sense of vector analysis. The most general trilinear self-coupling of the graviton field turns out to be the one derived from the Einstein-Hilbert action plus divergences and coboundaries. | |
| dc.description | 24 pages, amslatex, introduction enlarged, section 3 and 4 modified, section 5 new, appendices added, references updated, some typos corrected | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9903055 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9903055 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/55974 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Spin-2 gauge theories and perturbative gauge invariance | |
| dc.type | text |