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Tetrad Gravity: I) A New Formulation

arXiv:gr-qc/9807073

Abstract

A new version of tetrad gravity in globally hyperbolic, asymptotically flat at spatial infinity spacetimes with Cauchy surfaces diffeomorphic to is obtained by using a new parametrization of arbitrary cotetrads to define a set of configurational variables to be used in the ADM metric action. Seven of the fourteen first class constraints have the form of the vanishing of canonical momenta. A comparison is made with other models of tetrad gravity and with the ADM canonical formalism for metric gravity. The phase space expression of various 4-tensors is explicitly given.

68 pages, revtex, revised version with additions

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