A quadratic spinor Lagrangian for general relativity

DOI10.1007/BF02107951zbMath0820.53067arXivgr-qc/9407004MaRDI QIDQ1842081

James M. Nester, Roh Suan Tung

Publication date: 17 April 1995

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9407004

zbMATH Keywords

action principles; quasi-local energy; spinor calculus; quadratic Lagrangian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

53Z05: Applications of differential geometry to physics

83C60: Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism

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