BRST formalism of Weyl conformal gravity

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作者
Oda, Ichiro [1 ]
Saake, Philipp [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Ryukyus, Fac Sci, Dept Phys, Nishihara, Okinawa 9030213, Japan
[2] Max Planck Inst far Kernphys MP, Saupfercheckweg 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.106.106007
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
We present the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyupin (BRST) formalism of a Weyl conformal gravity in Weyl geometry. Choosing the extended de Donder gauge-fixing condition (or harmonic gauge condition) for the general coordinate invariance , the new scalar gauge fixing for the Weyl invariance, we find that there is a Poincare-like IOSp(10110) supersymmetry as in a Weyl invariant scalar-tensor gravity in Riemann geometry. We also point out that there is a gravitational conformal symmetry in quantum gravity although there is a massive Weyl gauge field as a result of spontaneous symmetry breakdown of Weyl gauge symmetry , we account for how the gravitational conformal symmetry is spontaneously broken to the Poincare symmetry. The corresponding massless Nambu-Goldstone bosons are the graviton and the dilaton. We also show the unitarity of the physical S-matrix on the basis of the BRST quartet mechanism in the case of an absence of anomalies.
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