Super ) - Gravities Beyond 4 Dimensions ∗ Jorge
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These lectures are intended as a broad introduction to Chern Simons gravity and supergravity. The motivation for these theories lies in the desire to have a gauge invariant action –in the sense of fiber bundles– in more than three dimensions, which could provide a firm ground for constructing a quantum theory of the gravitational field. The case of ChernSimons gravity and its supersymmetric extension for all odd D is presented. No analogous construction is available in even dimensions. Lectures given at the 2001 Summer School Geometric and Topological Methods for Quantum Field Theory, Villa de Leyva, Colombia, June 2001. E-mail: [email protected]
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