Hamiltonian Poincaré gauge theory of gravitation

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/2/027zbMATH Open0885.53084arXivgr-qc/9603023OpenAlexW3122902122MaRDI QIDQ3130091FDOQ3130091

Authors: A. López-Pinto, A. Tiemblo, Romualdo Tresguerres 

Publication date: 22 April 1998

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

Abstract: We develop a Hamiltonian formalism suitable to be applied to gauge theories in the presence of Gravitation, and to Gravity itself when considered as a gauge theory. It is based on a nonlinear realization of the Poincar'e group, taken as the local spacetime group of the gravitational gauge theory, with $SO(3)$ as the classification subgroup. The Wigner--like rotation induced by the nonlinear approach singularizes out the role of time and allows to deal with ordinary $SO(3)$ vectors. We apply the general results to the Einstein--Cartan action. We study the constraints and we obtain Einstein's classical equations in the extremely simple form of time evolution equations of the coframe. As a consequence of our approach, we identify the gauge--theoretical origin of the Ashtekar variables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9603023

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zbMATH Keywords

constraintsAshtekar variablesgravitationHamiltonian formalismgauge theoriesPoincaré groupfoliation of spactime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

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