Two-dimensional Sen connections in general relativity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/11/7/019MaRDI QIDQ4315131zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors László B. Szabados

Publication date 7 December 1994

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9402001

zbMATH Keywords

Sen connectionspacelike surfacesspin spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Twistor theory, double fibrations (complex-analytic aspects) (32L25) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

Abstract: The two dimensional version of the Sen connection for spinors and tensors on spacelike 2-surfaces is constructed. A complex metric $gamm{a}_{AB}$ on the spin spaces is found which characterizes both the algebraic and extrinsic geometrical properties of the 2-surface ${\displaystyle }$ $.ThecurvatureofthetwodimensionalSenoperator$Delta_e$isthepullbackto$${\displaystyle }$ of the anti-self-dual part of the spacetime curvature while its `torsion' is a boost gauge invariant expression of the extrinsic curvatures of ${\displaystyle }$ $$Delta_e$ are shown to be the familiar 2-surface twistor and the Weyl--Sen--Witten operators. Two Sen--Witten type identities are derived, the first is an identity between the 2 dimensional twistor and the Weyl--Sen--Witten operators and the integrand of Penrose's charge integral, while the second contains the `torsion' as well. For spinor fields satisfying the 2-surface twistor equation the first reduces to Tod's formula for the kinematical twistor.

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