Covariant action for Ashtekar's form of canonical gravity
- 1 April 1988
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Vol. 5 (4) , 583-594
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/5/4/006
Abstract
Ashtekar's new Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity is derived starting from a complex covariant four-dimensional action principle. The action is a modification of the tetrad-Palatini action that results from splitting the connection into the self-dual and anti-self-dual pieces and keeping only the former.Keywords
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