2006/06/09 by Frank B. Estabrook, Estabrook, Frank B.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0606045
6 pages
arxiv created 2006/06/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Two classic field theories of metric gravitation are given as constant-coefficient Exterior Differential Systems (EDS) on the flat orthonormal frame bundle over ten dimensional space. They are derivable by variation of Cartan 4-forms, and shown to be well-posed by calculation of their Cartan characteristic integers. Their solutions are embedded Riemannian 4-spaces. The first theory is generated by torsion 2-forms and Ricci-flat 3-forms and is a constant-coefficient EDS for vacuum tetrad gravity; its Cartan character table is the same as found for an EDS recently given in terms of tetrad frame and connection variables [1] [2]. The second constant-coefficient EDS is generated solely by 2-forms, and has a Cartan form of quadratic Yang-Mills type. Its solutions lie in torsion free 6-spaces and are fibered over 3-spaces. We conjecture that these solutions may be classically related to 10-dimensional quantum field theoretic constructions of cosmological vacua [3].