Published August 1, 1988 | Version v1
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Gravitational instantons from the Ashtekar variables

Creators

  • 1. Raman Research Inst., Bangalore (India)

Description

We present an ansatz, suggested by Ashtekar's reformulation of general relativity, which exactly solves the field equations with a cosmological constant. These solutions are gravitational instantons, i.e. self-dual Euclidean solutions of the Einstein field equations. (author)

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Class. Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
5
Journal Issue
8
Series
Class. Quantum Gravity.
Journal Page Range
L123-L125
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRD

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
United Kingdom
INIS RN
19096254
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION; EINSTEIN FIELD EQUATIONS; GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY; GRAVITATION; INSTANTONS; YANG-MILLS THEORY
Descriptors DEC
EQUATIONS; FIELD EQUATIONS; FIELD THEORIES; QUASI PARTICLES