Noncommutative Deformation of General Relativity

Ivan G. Avramidi (Department of Mathematics, New Mexico Tech)

ABSTRACT:

We develop a novel approach to gravity in which gravity is described by a matrix-valued symmetric two-tensor field and construct an invariant functional that reduces to the standard Einstein-Hilbert action in the commutative limit. We also introduce a gauge symmetry associated with the new degrees of freedom (gravicolor).
 

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Preprint: hep-th/0307140


July 24, 2003
Ivan Avramidi, New Mexico Tech