Wigner's little group as a gauge generator in linearized gravity theories
@article{Scaria2002WignersLG, title={Wigner's little group as a gauge generator in linearized gravity theories}, author={Tomy Scaria and Biswajit Chakraborty}, journal={Classical and Quantum Gravity}, year={2002}, volume={19}, pages={4445-4462} }
We show that the translational subgroup of Wigner's little group for massless particles in 3 + 1 dimensions generates gauge transformation in linearized Einstein gravity. Similarly, a suitable representation of the one-dimensional translational group T(1) is shown to generate gauge transformation in the linearized Einstein?Chern?Simons theory in 2 + 1 dimensions. These representations are derived systematically from appropriate representations of translational groups which generate gauge…
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