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Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2905–2906 (1989)

Superconformal gravity in three dimensions as a gauge theory

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U. Lindström and M. Roček
Institute for Theoretical Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3840

Received 6 March 1989; published in the issue dated 19 June 1989

We discuss the recent formulation of conformal gravity as a first-order Chern-Simons gauge theory and show that N superconformal gravity can be treated analogously for arbitrary N. This formulation unifies the gravitational and O(N) Yang-Mills Chern-Simons actions.

© 1989 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.2905
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.62.2905
PACS:
04.60.+n, 11.15.-q