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On representations of a chiral alternative to vierbein

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-27 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

In an attempt to facilitate the construction of a quantum theory of gravity, 't Hooft has considered a chiral alternative to the vierbein field in general theory of relativity. These objects, faμν f^a{}_{\mu\nu}, behave like the "cube root" of the metric tensor. We try to construct specific representations of these tensors in terms of Dirac γ\gamma matrices in Euclidean and Minkowski space and promote these to curved space through Penrose-Newman formalism. We conjecture that these new objects, with physical significance, are the analog of Killing-Yano tensors.

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@article{arxiv.1004.4575,
  title  = {On representations of a chiral alternative to vierbein},
  author = {Karmadeva Maharana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.4575},
  year   = {2010}
}

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13 pages