Conformal Gravity in Three Dimensions as a Gauge Theory
- 30 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 62 (5) , 501-504
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.62.501
Abstract
We show that conformally invariant gravity in three dimensions is equivalent to the Yang-Mills gauge theory of the conformal group in three dimensions, with a Chern-Simons action. This means that conformal gravity is finite and exactly soluble.Keywords
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