Deformations of gauge groups. Gravitation

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This is a review, and an attempt at completion, of the ’’Gupta program,’’ the ultimate goal of which is either to show that Einstein’s theory of gravitation is the only self‐consistent field theory of interacting, massless, spin‐2 particles in flat space or to discover interesting alternatives. It is useful to notice that the gauge group of general relativity is a deformation (in a mathematically precise sense) of the gauge group associated with the massless, spin‐2 free field. The uniqueness of Einstein’s theory depends on the stability of its gauge group with respect to a class of differentiable deformations. A generalized Gupta program for massless fields of arbitrary spins is proposed.

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