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Flat Self-dual Gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-01-19 v2

Abstract

We construct a new covariant action for "flat" self-dual gravity in four spacetime dimensions. The action has just one term, but when expanded around an appropriate background gives rise to a kinetic term and a cubic interaction. Upon imposing the light-cone gauge, the action reproduces the expected chiral interaction of Siegel. The new action is in many ways analogous to the known covariant action for self-dual Yang-Mills theory. There is also a sense in which the new self-dual gravity action exhibits the double copy of self-dual Yang-Mills structure.

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@article{arxiv.2106.01397,
  title  = {Flat Self-dual Gravity},
  author = {Kirill Krasnov and Evgeny Skvortsov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.01397},
  year   = {2022}
}

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18 pages

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