Gauge theory of gravitation in higher-dimensional space-time and its dimensional reduction |
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Affiliation: | Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560, Japan |
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Abstract: | It is shown that the Euler invariant type action of an O(d) gauge theory in d dimensions is a surface term and becomes the (d − 1)-dimensional gauge theory of gravitation. Its Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction gives a theory which contains the ordinary Einstein gravity. |
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