New approaches in W gravities

E. M. C. Abreu, A. de Souza Dutra, and C. Wotzasek
Phys. Rev. D 66, 105008 – Published 15 November 2002

Abstract

We devote effort to studying some nonlinear actions, characteristic of W theories, in the framework of the soldering formalism. We disclose interesting new results concerning the embedding of the original chiral W particles in different metrical spaces in the final soldered action; i.e., the metric is modified by the soldering interference process. The results are presented in a weak field approximation for the WN case when N>~3 and also in an exact way for W2. We promote a generalization of the interference phenomenon to WN theories of different chiralities and show that the geometrical features introduced can yield a new understanding of the interference formalism in quantum field theories.

  • Received 9 April 2002

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.66.105008

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

E. M. C. Abreu*

  • Departamento de Física e Química, UNESP/Guaratinguetá, Av. Ariberto Pereira da Cunha 333, Guaratinguetá, 12516-410, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
  • Instituto de Ciências, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Av. BPS 1303, Pinheirinho, Itajubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil

A. de Souza Dutra

  • Departamento de Física e Química, UNESP/Guaratinguetá, Av. Ariberto Pereira da Cunha 333, Guaratinguetá, 12516-410, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

C. Wotzasek

  • Departamento de Física e Química, UNESP/Guaratinguetá, Av. Ariberto Pereira da Cunha 333, Guaratinguetá, 12516-410, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil
  • Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

  • *Present address: Depto. de Campos e Partículas, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rua Xavier Sigaud 150, 22290-180, Urca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Electronic address: everton@feg.unesp.br; eabreu@unifei.edu.br; everton@cbpf.br
  • Electronic address: dutra@feg.unesp.br
  • Electronic address: clovis@if.ufrj.br; wotzasek@feg.unesp.br

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Vol. 66, Iss. 10 — 15 November 2002

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