Classical Euclidean general relativity from ``left-handed area = right-handed area"

Details Classical Euclidean general relativity from ``left-handed area = right-handed area" Classical Euclidean general relativity from ``left-handed area = right-handed area"

1998-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9804061v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

19 pages latex. No figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/16/4/024

A classical continuum theory corresponding to Barrett and Crane's model of Euclidean quantum gravity is presented. The fields in this classical theory are those of SO(4) BF theory, a simple topological theory of an so(4) valued 2-form field, $B^{IJ}_{\m\n}$, and an so(4) connection. The left handed (self-dual) and right handed (anti-self-dual) components of $B$ define a left handed and a, generally distinct, right handed area for each spacetime 2-surface. The theory being presented is obtained by adding to the BF action a Lagrange multiplier term that enforces the constraint that the left handed and the right handed areas be equal. It is shown that Euclidean general relativity (GR) forms a sector of the resulting theory. The remaining three sectors of the theory are also characterized and it is shown that, except in special cases, GR canonical initial data is sufficient to specify the GR sector as well as a specific solution within this sector. Finally, the path integral quantization of the theory is discussed at a formal level and a hueristic argument is given suggesting that in the semiclassical limit the path integral is dominated by solutions in one of the non-GR sectors, which would mean that the theory quantized in this way is not a quantization of GR.

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