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On multi-graviton and multi-gravitino gauge theories

Stephen C Anco

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This paper studies nonlinear deformations of the linear gauge theory of any number of spin-2 and spin-3/2 fields with general formal multiplication rules in place of standard Grassmann rules for manipulating the fields, in four spacetime dimensions. General possibilities for multiplication rules and coupling constants are simultaneously accommodated by regarding the set of fields equivalently as a single algebra-valued spin-2 field and single algebra-valued spin-3/2 field, where the underlying algebra is factorized into a field-coupling part and an internal multiplication part. The condition that there exists a gauge-invariant Lagrangian (to within a divergence) for these algebra-valued fields is used to derive determining equations whose solutions give all allowed deformation terms, yielding nonlinear field equations and non-Abelian gauge symmetries, together with all allowed formal multiplication rules as needed in the Lagrangian for the demonstration of invariance under the gauge symmetries and for the derivation of the field equations. In the case of spin-2 fields alone, the main result of this analysis is that all deformations (without any higher derivatives than those that appear in the linear theory) are equivalent to an algebra-valued Einstein gravity theory. By a systematic examination of factorizations of the algebra, a novel type of nonlinear gauge theory of two or more spin-2 fields is found, where the coupling for the fields is based on structure constants of an anticommutative, anti-associative algebra, and with formal multiplication rules that make the fields anticommuting (while products obey anti-associativity). Supersymmetric extensions of these results are obtained in the more general case when spin-3/2 fields are included.


PACS

04.20.-q Classical general relativity

11.10.Ef Lagrangian and Hamiltonian approach

02.10.-v Logic, set theory, and algebra

11.15.-q Gauge field theories

MSC

83C05 Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems)

81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories (See also 53C07, 58E15)

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 24 (21 December 2002)

Received 30 August 2002

Published 28 November 2002



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