New Action Principle for General Relativity

2011/03/23 by Kirill Krasnov · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #gr-qc #hep-th #math.DG

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.106.251103

published as Phys.Rev.Lett.106:251103,2011 · 4 pages, no figures

arxiv created 2011/03/23 · arxiv updated 2011/07/28

Abstract

General Relativity can be reformulated as a diffeomorphism invariant SU(2) gauge theory. A new action principle for this "pure connection" formulation of GR is described.

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