Vielbein-Spin Connection Formulation of General Relativity and Gravitational Instantons

2019 ◽  
pp. 441-454
1963 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendricus G Loos

Universe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laur Järv ◽  
Manuel Hohmann ◽  
Martin Krššák ◽  
Christian Pfeifer

Teleparallel geometry utilizes Weitzenböck connection which has nontrivial torsion but no curvature and does not directly follow from the metric like Levi–Civita connection. In extended teleparallel theories, for instance in f ( T ) or scalar-torsion gravity, the connection must obey its antisymmetric field equations. Thus far, only a few analytic solutions were known. In this note, we solve the f ( T , ϕ ) gravity antisymmetric vacuum field equations for a generic rotating tetrad ansatz in Weyl canonical coordinates, and find the corresponding spin connection coefficients. By a coordinate transformation, we present the solution also in Boyer–Lindquist coordinates, often used to study rotating solutions in general relativity. The result hints for the existence of another branch of rotating solutions besides the Kerr family in extended teleparallel gravities.


2004 ◽  
Vol 19 (02) ◽  
pp. 227-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. VALTANCOLI

We introduce a matrix model for noncommutative gravity, based on the gauge group U (2)⊗ U (2). The vierbein is encoded in a matrix Yμ, having values in the coset space U (4)/( U (2)⊗ U (2)), while the spin connection is encoded in a matrix Xμ, having values in U (2)⊗ U (2). We show how to recover the Einstein equations from the θ→0 limit of the matrix model equations of motion. We stress the necessity of a metric tensor, which is a covariant representation of the gauge group in order to set up a consistent second order formalism. We finally define noncommutative gravitational instantons as generated by U (2)⊗ U (2) valued quasi-unitary operators acting on the background of the matrix model. Some of these solutions have naturally self-dual or anti-self-dual spin connections.


Author(s):  
Maciej Dunajski

We propose a construction of Skyrme fields from holonomy of the spin connection of gravitational instantons. The procedure is implemented for Atiyah–Hitchin and Taub–NUT instantons. The skyrmion resulting from the Taub–NUT is given explicitly on the space of orbits of a left translation inside the whole isometry group. The domain of the Taub–NUT skyrmion is a trivial circle bundle over the Poincaré disc. The position of the skyrmion depends on the Taub–NUT mass parameter, and its topological charge is equal to two.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (08) ◽  
pp. 1218-1221
Author(s):  
MICHELE CASTELLANA ◽  
GIOVANNI MONTANI

Quantization of systems with constraints can be carried on with several methods. In the Dirac's formulation the classical generators of gauge transformations are required to annihilate physical quantum states to ensure their gauge invariance. Carrying on BRST symmetry it is possible to get a condition on physical states which, differently from the Dirac's method, requires them to be invariant under the BRST transformation. Employing this method for the action of general relativity expressed in terms of the spin connection and tetrad fields with path integral methods, we construct the generator of BRST transformation associated with the underlying local Lorentz symmetry of the theory and write a physical state condition following from BRST invariance. The condition we gain differs form the one obtained within Ashtekar's canonical formulation, showing how we recover the latter only by a suitable choice of the gauge fixing functionals. We finally discuss how it should be possible to obtain all the requested physical state conditions associated with all the underlying gauge symmetries of the classical theory using our approach.


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