Plebański formulation of general relativity: a practical introduction

DOI10.1007/S10714-010-1061-XzbMATH Open1208.83001arXiv0904.0423OpenAlexW3104952916WikidataQ126137354 ScholiaQ126137354MaRDI QIDQ629943FDOQ629943

Authors: Kirill Krasnov 

Publication date: 10 March 2011

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a pedagogical introduction into an old, but unfortunately not commonly known formulation of GR in terms of self-dual two-forms due to in particular Jerzy Plebanski. Our presentation is rather explicit in that we show how the familiar textbook solutions: Schwarzschild, Volkoff-Oppenheimer, as well as those describing the Newtonian limit, a gravitational wave and the homogeneous isotropic Universe can be obtained within this formalism. Our description shows how Plebanski formulation gives quite an economical alternative to the usual metric and frame-based schemes for deriving Einstein equations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.0423

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Gravitational waves (83C35) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

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