Abstract
The leitmotif of this paper is the question of whether four- and higher even-dimensional conformal gravities do have a Chern-Simons pedigree. We show that Weyl gravity can be obtained as the dimensional reduction of a five-dimensional Chern-Simons action for a suitable (gauge-fixed, tractorlike) five-dimensional anti-de Sitter connection. The gauge-fixing and dimensional reduction program readily admits a generalization to higher dimensions for the case of certain conformal gravities obtained by contractions of the Weyl tensor.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 084026 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 89 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 4 Apr 2014 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics