Real Ashtekar variables for Lorentzian signature space-times
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Real Ashtekar variables for Lorentzian signature space-times.
I suggest in this letter a new strategy to attack the problem of the reality conditions in the Ashtekar approach to classical and quantum general relativity. By writing a modified Hamiltonian constraint in the usual SO(3) Yang-Mills phase space I show that it is possible to describe space-times with Lorentzian signature without the introduction of complex variables. All the features of the Asht...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review D
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0556-2821
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.51.5507