Lsdiff and the Einstein equations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/1/001MaRDI QIDQ4865455zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James D. E. Grant

Publication date 18 March 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9411059

zbMATH Keywords

self-dual Ricci-flat metricsvacuum Einstein equationsvolume-preserving vector fieldsYang-Mills equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: We give a formulation of the vacuum Einstein equations in terms of a set of volume-preserving vector fields on a four-manifold $calM$. These vectors satisfy a set of equations which are a generalisation of the Yang-Mills equations for a constant connection on flat spacetime.

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