Gravity as a diffeomorphism invariant gauge theory

Abstract

A general diffeomorphism invariant SU(2) gauge theory is a gravity theory with two propagating polarizations of the graviton. We develop this description of gravity, in particular for future applications to the perturbative quantization. Thus, the linearized theory, gauge symmetries, gauge fixing are discussed in detail, and the propagator is obtained. The propagator takes a simple form of that of Yang-Mills theory with an additional projector on diffeomorphism equivalence classes of connections inserted. In our approach the gravitational perturbation theory takes a rather unusual form in that the Planck length is no longer fundamental.

v2: 29 pages, no figures; references, more material added; identification of the cutoff scale corrected; v3: 32 pages, published version

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