FIVE-DIMENSIONAL CHERN–SIMONS GRAVITY WITH NONLINEAR ELECTRODYNAMICS

Abstract

We consider five-dimensional theory of gravity proposed recently by Chamseddine. It is based on the Chern–Simons five-form and the SO(1,5) gauge group. The action naturally contains a Gauss–Bonnet term, an Einstein term and a cosmological constant. We shall see that by imposing to this action the five-dimensional principal fiber bundle structure and the toroidal dimensional reduction process, the resulting U(1) gauge theory contains non-minimal couplings to gravity and nonlinear modifications to the standard Einstein–Maxwell–dilaton theory.