Lattice gauge gravity

Noboru Kawamoto and Holger Bech Nielsen
Phys. Rev. D 43, 1150 – Published 15 February 1991
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Abstract

We propose a lattice gravity action based on the gauge-theory point of view. We avoid a problem, the action potentially going to infinity by taking the link length to a constant a (the lattice constant). By fixing the local Lorentz gauge freedom, we obtain a gauge-fixed version of the d-dimensional action as a sum of ad2sinδ (δ=deficitangle) which is a compactified version of Regge calculus. The fermion gravity coupling term can be constructed in a similar way. We point out the possibility that this lattice gravity action approaches the Einstein action in the long-range limit if the action has an ultraviolet fixed point.

  • Received 30 July 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.43.1150

©1991 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Noboru Kawamoto

  • Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606, Japan

Holger Bech Nielsen

  • Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark

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Vol. 43, Iss. 4 — 15 February 1991

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