Plebanski gravity without the simplicity constraints

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/26/5/055002MaRDI QIDQ3616399zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kirill Krasnov

Publication date 25 March 2009

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.3147

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

Abstract: In Plebanski's self-dual formulation general relativity becomes SO(3) BF theory supplemented with the so-called simplicity (or metricity) constraints for the B-field. The main dynamical equation of the theory states that the curvature of the B-compatible SO(3) connection is self-dual, with the notion of self-duality being defined by the B-field. We describe a theory obtained by dropping the metricity constraints, keeping only the requirement that the curvature of the B-compatible connection is self-dual. It turns out that the theory one obtains is to a very large degree fixed by the Bianchi identities. Moreover, it is still a gravity theory, with just two propagating degrees of freedom as in GR.

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