Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1995-06-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
7 pages, Latex, no figures, to appear in Proceedings of the Maynooth Meeting on Topics in the Theories of Fundamental Interact
Scientific paper
In complex general relativity, Lorentzian space-time is replaced by a four-complex-dimensional complex-Riemannian manifold, with holomorphic connection and holomorphic curvature tensor. A multisymplectic analysis shows that the Hamiltonian constraint is replaced by a geometric structure linear in the holomorphic multimomenta, providing some boundary conditions are imposed on two-complex-dimensional surfaces. On studying such boundary conditions, a link with the Penrose twistor programme is found. Moreover, in the case of real Riemannian four-manifolds, the local theory of primary and secondary potentials for gravitino fields, recently proposed by Penrose, has been applied to Ricci-flat backgrounds with boundary. The geometric interpretation of the differential equations obeyed by such secondary potentials is related to the analysis of integrability conditions in the theory of massless fields, and might lead to a better understanding of twistor geometry. Thus, new tools are available in complex general relativity and in classical field theory in real Riemannian backgrounds.
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