Legendre transforms in Ashtekar's theory of gravity
- 1 October 1991
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Vol. 8 (10) , 1765-1783
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/8/10/005
Abstract
Legendre transforms from Ashtekar's Hamiltonian formulation of gravity to a metric-free second-order configuration space Lagrangian formulation, are performed for gravity with matter couplings and cosmological constant.Keywords
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