A geometric formulation of the SO(3,2) theory of gravity

✍ Scribed by Siegfried Gotzes; Allen C Hirshfeld

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 535 KB
• Volume: 203
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-4916
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-4916(90)90176-o

✦ Synopsis

A coordinate-free description of the SO(3, 2) theory of gravity is given, which clarifies its status as a gauge theory. The formulation in terms of a Clifford bundle over spacetime yields a particularly elegant form for the action.