SELF-DUAL SOLUTIONS TO EUCLIDEAN GRAVITY

被引:250
作者
EGUCHI, T
HANSON, AJ
机构
[1] STANFORD UNIV,STANFORD LINEAR ACCELERATOR CTR,STANFORD,CA 94305
[2] UNIV CALIF BERKELEY LAWRENCE BERKELEY LAB,BERKELEY,CA 94720
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D O I
10.1016/0003-4916(79)90282-3
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
Recent work on Euclidean self-dual gravitational fields is reviewed. We discuss various solutions to the Einstein equations and treat asymptotically locally Euclidean self-dual metrics in detail. These latter solutions have vanishing classical action and nontrivial topological invariants, and so may play a role in quantum gravity resembling that of the Yang-Mills instantons. © 1979.
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页码:82 / 106
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