Causal structure and diffeomorphisms in Ashtekar's gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/4/016MaRDI QIDQ4876668zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors H.-J. Matschull

Publication date 4 November 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9511034

zbMATH Keywords

\(\text{SO}(3,\mathbb{C})\) invarianceAshtekar's gravitydiffeomorphism invariant extension of Einstein gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: A manifestly diffeomorphism invariant extension of Einstein gravity is constructed, which includes singular metrics, and whose ADM formulation is Ashtekar's gravity. The latter is shown to be locally equivalent to the covariant theory. It turns out that exactly those kinds of degenerate four dimensional metrics are allowed which do not destroy the causal structure of spacetime. It is also shown that Ashtekar's gravity possesses an extension that provides a local SO(3,C) invariance, without complexifying or changing the signature of the metric.

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