A Lorentz gauge theory of gravity

We present a Lorentz gauge theory of gravity in which the metric is not dynamical. Spherically symmetric weak field solutions are studied. We show that this solution contains the Schwarzschild spacetime at least to the first order of perturbation. Next, we present a special case of the theory where the Schwarzschild metric is an exact solution. It is also shown that the de Sitter space is an exact vacuum solution of this special case and as a result the theory is able to explain the expansion of the universe with no need for dark energy. Within this special case, quantization of the theory is also studied, the basic Feynman diagrams are derived and the renormalizability of the theory is studied using the power-counting method. We show that under a certain condition the theory is power-counting renormalizable. (paper)