IAFE   05512
INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMIA Y FISICA DEL ESPACIO
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
artículos
Título:
Geometric inequivalence of metric and Palatini formulations of General Relativity
Autor/es:
BEJARANO, CECILIA; OLMO, GONZALO J.; DELHOM, ADRIA; RUBIERA-GARCIA, DIEGO; JIMÉNEZ-CANO, ALEJANDRO
Revista:
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Editorial:
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
Referencias:
Año: 2020 vol. 802
ISSN:
0370-2693
Resumen:
Projective invariance is a symmetry of the Palatini version of General Relativity which is not present in the metric formulation. The fact that the Riemann tensor changes nontrivially under projective transformations implies that, unlike in the usual metric approach, in the Palatini formulation this tensor is subject to a gauge freedom, which allows some ambiguities even in its scalar contractions. In this sense, we show that for the Schwarzschild solution there exists a projective gauge in which the (affine) Kretschmann scalar, K, can be set to vanish everywhere. This puts forward that the divergence of curvature scalars may, in some cases, be avoided by a gauge transformation of the connection.