Reality conditions for Ashtekar variables as Dirac constraints

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/11/009MaRDI QIDQ5689709zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hugo A. Morales-Técotl, J. David Vergara, L. F. Urrutia

Publication date 28 May 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9607044

zbMATH Keywords

Ashtekar variablessecond-class constraintsreality conditions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We show that the reality conditions to be imposed on Ashtekar variables to recover real gravity can be implemented as second class constraints a la Dirac. Thus, counting gravitational degrees of freedom follows accordingly. Some constraints of the real theory turn out to be non-polynomial, regardless of the form, polynomial or non-polynomial, taken for the reality conditions. We comment upon the compatibility of our approach with the recently proposed Wick transform point of view, as well as on some alternatives for dealing with such second class constraints.

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