General considerations of matter coupling with the self-dual connection

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/12/021zbMATH Open0838.53061arXivgr-qc/9505019OpenAlexW3106002313WikidataQ125752362 ScholiaQ125752362MaRDI QIDQ4864085FDOQ4864085

Authors: Motomu Tsuda, Takeshi Shirafuji, Hong-Jun Xie 

Publication date: 4 June 1996

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

Abstract: It has been shown for low-spin fields that the use of only the self-dual part of the connection as basic variable does not lead to extra conditions or inconsistencies. We study whether this is true for more general chiral action. We generalize the chiral gravitational action, and assume that half-integer spin fields are coupled with torsion linearly. The equation for torsion is solved and substituted back into the generalized chiral action, giving four-fermion contact terms. If these contact terms are complex, the imaginary part will give rise to extra conditions for the gravitational and matter field equations. We study the four-fermion contact terms taking spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 fields as examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9505019

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zbMATH Keywords

chiral gravitational actionfour-fermion contact termshalf-integer spin fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

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• MATTER LAGRANGIANS COUPLED WITH CONNECTIONS
• Analogies between self-duality and stealth matter source

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