Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Aspects of Differential Geometry
- 2 Metric and Related Formulations
- 3 Cartan’s Tetrad Formulation
- 4 General Relativity in 2+1 Dimensions
- 5 The ‘Chiral’ Formulation of General Relativity
- 6 Chiral Pure Connection Formulation
- 7 Deformations of General Relativity
- 8 Perturbative Descriptions of Gravity
- 9 Higher-Dimensional Descriptions
- 10 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index
10 - Concluding Remarks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2020
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Aspects of Differential Geometry
- 2 Metric and Related Formulations
- 3 Cartan’s Tetrad Formulation
- 4 General Relativity in 2+1 Dimensions
- 5 The ‘Chiral’ Formulation of General Relativity
- 6 Chiral Pure Connection Formulation
- 7 Deformations of General Relativity
- 8 Perturbative Descriptions of Gravity
- 9 Higher-Dimensional Descriptions
- 10 Concluding Remarks
- References
- Index
Summary
We define gravity as a gauge theory with soldering. We discuss some analogies between gravity and YM theory that become visible via the chiral description of GR. We end with a provocative remark that assigns significance to the demonstrated by this book fact that there are so many non-obviously equivalent reformulations of General Relativity.
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- Formulations of General RelativityGravity, Spinors and Differential Forms, pp. 360 - 364Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020