Ashtekar variables: structures in bundles

DOI10.1007/S10013-016-0184-0MaRDI QIDQ269819zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Fleischhack, Philipp Levermann

Publication date 6 April 2016

Published in Vietnam Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.1262

zbMATH Keywords

general relativityAshtekar variablescanonical gravityconnectionsdifferential geometryloop quantum gravitymathematical physicsquantum cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: Canonical gravity can be formulated by means of a densitized dreibein together with an SU(2) connection. These so-called Ashtekar variables are the fundamental quantities, loop quantum gravity is resting on. In this paper we review these variables from the perspective of fibre bundles. This is straightforward for the dreibein field as this is simply a frame. The Ashtekar connection, however, is more complicated. It turns out, that at the level of the tangent bundle, it is given by the Levi-Civita connection plus a multiple of the Weingarten mapping, whose action on vector fields is induced from the vector product on R^3. Lifted to the spin bundle, one regains the well-known SU(2) Ashtekar connection. At the end, we apply our results to FRW spacetimes.

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