Ashtekar variables, self-dual metrics and w-infinity

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1992-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9206058v3

Class.Quant.Grav.10:543-550,1993

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

8 pages (plain tex), (revised and expanded)

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/10/3/014

The self-duality equations for the Riemann tensor are studied using the Ashtekar Hamiltonian formulation for general relativity. These equations may be written as dynamical equations for three divergence free vector fields on a three dimensional surface in the spacetime. A simplified form of these equations, describing metrics with a one Killing field symmetry are written down, and it shown that a particular sector of these equations has a Hamiltonian form where the Hamiltonian is an arbitrary function on a two-surface. In particular, any element of the $w_\infty$ algebra may be chosen as a the Hamiltonian. For a special choice of this Hamiltonian, an infinite set of solutions of the self-duality equations are given. These solutions are parametrized by elements of the $w_\infty$ algebra, which in turn leads to an explicit form of four dimensional complex self-dual metrics that are in one to one correspondence with elements of this algebra.

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