A note on the spin connection representation of gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/6/334zbMATH Open0942.83043arXivhep-th/9904022OpenAlexW2010548843MaRDI QIDQ4699951FDOQ4699951

Authors: Mauricio Contreras, Jorge Zanelli 

Publication date: 18 November 1999

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

Abstract: The formulation of gravity in 3+1 dimensions in which the spin connection is the basic field ($omega$-frame) leads to a theory with first and second class constraints. Here, the Dirac brackets for the second class constraints are evaluated and the Dirac algebra of first class constraints is found to be the usual algebra associated to space-time reparametrizations and tangent space rotations. This establishes the classical equivalence with the vierbein approach (e-frame). The explicit form of the path integral for this theory is given and the quantum equivalence with the e-frame is also established.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9904022

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zbMATH Keywords

path integralDirac brackets\(3+1\)-de composition of space-timeDirac algebra of first-class constraintsquantum equivalence with the \(e\)-framevierbein approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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