REMARKS CONCERNING THE GEOMETRIES OF GRAVITY AND GAUGE FIELDS
Abstract
An important limitation is shown in the analogy between the Aharonov-Bohm effect and the parallel transport on a cone. It illustrates a basic difference between gravity and gauge fields due to the existence of the solder form for the space-time geometry. This difference is further shown by the observability of the gravitational phase for open paths. This reinforces a previous suggestion that the fundamental variables for quantizing the gravitational field are the solder form and the connection, and not the metric.
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