Spinor 1-forms as gravitational potentials

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/6/002MaRDI QIDQ4838566zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ted Jacobson, Roh-Suan Tung

Publication date 12 July 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9502037

zbMATH Keywords

positive energyquasilocal massspinor 1-form gravitational potentials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: General relativity is derived from an action which is quadratic in the covariant derivative of certain spinor one-form gravitational potentials. Either a pair of 2-component spinor one-forms or a single Dirac spinor one-form can be employed. The metric is a quadratic function of these spinor one-forms. In the 2-component spinor formulation the action differs from the usual chiral action for general relativity by a total differential. In the Dirac spinor formulation the action is the real part of the former one. The Hamiltonian is related to the ones in positive energy proofs and spinorial quasilocal mass constructions.

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