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The Geroch group in the Ashtekar formulation

Abstract

We study the Geroch group in the framework of the Ashtekar formulation. In the case of the one-Killing-vector reduction, it turns out that the third column of the Ashtekar connection is essentially the gradient of the Ernst potential, which implies that the both quantities are based on the ``same`` complexification. In the two-Killing-vector reduction, we demonstrate Ehlers` and Matzner-Misner`s SL(2,R) symmetries, respectively, by constructing two sets of canonical variables that realize either of the symmetries canonically, in terms of the Ashtekar variables. The conserved charges associated with these symmetries are explicitly obtained. We show that the gl(2,R) loop algebra constructed previously in the loop representation is not the Lie algebra of the Geroch group itself. We also point out that the recent argument on the equivalence to a chiral model is based on a gauge-choice which cannot be achieved generically. (orig.)
Authors:
Mizoguchi, Shun`ya [1] 
  1. Hamburg Univ. (Germany). 2. Inst. fuer Theoretische Physik
Publication Date:
Nov 01, 1994
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
DESY-94-199
Reference Number:
SCA: 661310; PA: DE-95:0G5152; EDB-95:053993; SN: 95001360963
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Nov 1994
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; SL GROUPS; CHIRALITY; CONSERVATION LAWS; SPACE-TIME; SYMMETRY; IRREDUCIBLE REPRESENTATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY; U-1 GROUPS; COMPACTIFICATION; KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY; METRICS; POTENTIALS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; CONFORMAL INVARIANCE; LAGRANGE EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; 661310; RELATIVITY AND GRAVITATION
OSTI ID:
10128631
Research Organizations:
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)
Country of Origin:
Germany
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 0418-9833; Other: ON: DE95755645; TRN: DE95G5152
Availability:
OSTI; NTIS (US Sales Only)
Submitting Site:
DE
Size:
41 p.
Announcement Date:
Jul 04, 2005

Citation Formats

Mizoguchi, Shun`ya. The Geroch group in the Ashtekar formulation. Germany: N. p., 1994. Web.
Mizoguchi, Shun`ya. The Geroch group in the Ashtekar formulation. Germany.
Mizoguchi, Shun`ya. 1994. "The Geroch group in the Ashtekar formulation." Germany.
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title = {The Geroch group in the Ashtekar formulation}
author = {Mizoguchi, Shun`ya}
abstractNote = {We study the Geroch group in the framework of the Ashtekar formulation. In the case of the one-Killing-vector reduction, it turns out that the third column of the Ashtekar connection is essentially the gradient of the Ernst potential, which implies that the both quantities are based on the ``same`` complexification. In the two-Killing-vector reduction, we demonstrate Ehlers` and Matzner-Misner`s SL(2,R) symmetries, respectively, by constructing two sets of canonical variables that realize either of the symmetries canonically, in terms of the Ashtekar variables. The conserved charges associated with these symmetries are explicitly obtained. We show that the gl(2,R) loop algebra constructed previously in the loop representation is not the Lie algebra of the Geroch group itself. We also point out that the recent argument on the equivalence to a chiral model is based on a gauge-choice which cannot be achieved generically. (orig.)}
place = {Germany}
year = {1994}
month = {Nov}
}