BRST-antifield-treatment of metric-affine gravity

Abstract

The metric-affine gauge theory of gravity provides a broad framework in which gauge theories of gravity can be formulated. In this article we fit metric-affine gravity into the covariant BRST--antifield formalism in order to obtain gauge fixed quantum actions. As an example the gauge fixing of a general two-dimensional model of metric-affine gravity is worked out explicitly. The result is shown to contain the gauge fixed action of the bosonic string in conformal gauge as a special case.

19 pages LATEX, to appear in Phys. Rev. D

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• Metric-Affine Gauge Theory of Gravity I. Fundamental Structure and Field Equations

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