GAUGED ADS–MAXWELL ALGEBRA AND GRAVITY

Abstract

We deform the anti-de Sitter algebra by adding additional generators [Formula: see text], forming in this way the negative cosmological constant counterpart of the Maxwell algebra. We gauge this algebra and construct a dynamical model with the help of a constrained BF theory. It turns out that the resulting theory is described by the Einstein–Cartan action with Holst term, and the gauge fields associated with the Maxwell generators [Formula: see text] appear only in topological terms that do not influence dynamical field equations. We briefly comment on the extension of this construction, which would lead to a nontrivial Maxwell fields dynamics.