A Gauge Theoretical View of the Charge Concept in Einstein Gravity |
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Authors: | Marc Toussaint |
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Institution: | (1) Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, D–50923 Köln, Germany |
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Abstract: | We will discuss some analogies between internal gauge theories and gravity in order to better understand the charge concept in gravity. A dimensional analysis of gauge theories in general and a strict definition of elementary, monopole, and topological charges are applied to electromagnetism and to teleparallelism, a gauge theoretical formulation of Einstein gravity. As a result we inevitably find that the gravitational coupling constant has dimension /l
2, the mass parameter of a particle dimension /l, and the Schwarzschild mass parameter dimension l (where l means length). These dimensions confirm the meaning of mass as elementary and as monopole charge of the translation group, respectively. In detail, we find that the Schwarzschild mass parameter is a quasi–electric monopole charge of the time translation whereas the NUT parameter is a quasi–magnetic monopole charge of the time translation as well as a topological charge. The Kerr parameter and the electric and magnetic charges are interpreted similarly. We conclude that each elementary charge of a Casimir operator of the gauge group is the source of a (quasi-electric) monopole charge of the respective Killing vector. |
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Keywords: | Gauge theory of gravity Kaluza– Klein magnetic monopole Taub– NUT |
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