Dimensionally reduced gravity, Hermitian symmetric spaces and the Ashtekar variables

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/14/310MaRDI QIDQ4457601zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Othmar Brodbeck, M. Zagermann

Publication date 25 March 2004

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9911118

zbMATH Keywords

dimensional reductionsEinstein equationHermitian symmetric spacessupergravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.) (37K10) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with infinite-dimensional Lie algebras and other algebraic structures (37K30) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: Dimensional reductions of various higher dimensional (super)gravity theories lead to effectively two-dimensional field theories described by gravity coupled G/H nonlinear sigma-models. We show that a new set of complexified variables can be introduced when G/H is a Hermitian symmetric space. This generalizes an earlier construction that grew out of the Ashtekar formulation of two Killing vector reduced pure 4d general relativity. Apart from giving some new insights into dimensional reductions of higher dimensional (super)gravity theories, these Ashtekar-type variables offer several technical advantages in the context of the exact quantization of these models. As an application, an infinite set of conserved charges is constructed. Our results might serve as a starting point for probing the quantum equivalence of the Ashtekar and the metric formalism within a non-trivial midi-superspace model of quantum gravity.

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