General relativity from three-forms in seven dimensions

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Krasnov, Kirill (2017) General relativity from three-forms in seven dimensions. Physics Letters B, 772 . pp. 300-305. ISSN 1873-2445

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Official URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269317304926

Abstract

We consider a certain theory of 3-forms in 7 dimensions, and study its dimensional reduction to 4D, compactifying the 7-dimensional manifold on the 3-sphere of a fixed radius. We show that the resulting 4D theory is (Riemannian) General Relativity (GR) in Plebanski formulation, modulo corrections that are negligible for curvatures smaller than Planckian. Possibly the most interesting point of this construction is that the dimensionally reduced theory is GR with a non-zero cosmological constant, and the value of the cosmological constant is directly related to the size of . Realistic values of Λ correspond to of Planck size.

Item Type:	Article
RIS ID:	https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/882205
Schools/Departments:	University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Mathematical Sciences
Identification Number:	10.1016/j.physletb.2017.06.025
Depositing User:	Eprints, Support
Date Deposited:	09 Aug 2017 08:19
Last Modified:	04 May 2020 19:05
URI:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/44787

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