Ashtekar variables, self-dual metrics, and w infinity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/10/3/014MaRDI QIDQ3135997zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Viqar Husain

Publication date 21 September 1993

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9206058

zbMATH Keywords

\(w_ \infty\) algebraAshtekar Hamiltonian formulationself-duality equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20)

Abstract: The self-duality equations for the Riemann tensor are studied using the Ashtekar Hamiltonian formulation for general relativity. These equations may be written as dynamical equations for three divergence free vector fields on a three dimensional surface in the spacetime. A simplified form of these equations, describing metrics with a one Killing field symmetry are written down, and it shown that a particular sector of these equations has a Hamiltonian form where the Hamiltonian is an arbitrary function on a two-surface. In particular, any element of the $w_{i}nfty$ algebra may be chosen as a the Hamiltonian. For a special choice of this Hamiltonian, an infinite set of solutions of the self-duality equations are given. These solutions are parametrized by elements of the $w_{i}nfty$ algebra, which in turn leads to an explicit form of four dimensional complex self-dual metrics that are in one to one correspondence with elements of this algebra.

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