2-form geometry and the 't Hooft-Plebanski action

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/7/004MaRDI QIDQ4840807zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ingemar Bengtsson

Publication date 2 August 1995

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9502010

zbMATH Keywords

't Hooft-Plebanski actionBianchi identitiesconformal factorEinstein's equationsRiemann tensorSO(3) curvature tensorYang-Mills equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: Riemannian geometry in four dimensions, including Einstein's equations, can be described by means of a connection that annihilates a triad of two-forms (rather than a tetrad of vector fields). Our treatment of the conformal factor of the metric differs from the original presentation of this result, due to 'tHooft. In the action the conformal factor now appears as a field to be varied.

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