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A Poincare Gauge Theory of Gravitation in Minkowski Spacetime

C. Wiesendanger

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/9604043

Abstract

The conventional role of spacetime geometry in the description of gravity is pointed out. Global Poincare symmetry as an inner symmetry of field theories defined on a fixed Minkowski spacetime is discussed. Its extension to local P\/ gauge symmetry and the corresponding P\/ gauge fields are introduced. Their minimal coupling to matter is obtained. The scaling behaviour of the partition function of a spinor in P\/ gauge field backgrounds is computed. The corresponding renormalization constraint is used to determine a minimal gauge field dynamics.

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