Gravitation and quadratic forms

• Main Authors: Ananth, Sudarshan, Brink, Lars, Majumdar, Sucheta, Mali, Mahendra, Shah, Nabha
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Classical Theories of Gravity; Gauge Symmetry
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89480; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44953
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The light-cone Hamiltonians describing both pure ( N = 0) Yang-Mills and N = 4 super Yang-Mills may be expressed as quadratic forms. Here, we show that this feature extends to theories of gravity. We demonstrate how the Hamiltonians of both pure gravity and N = 8 supergravity, in four dimens...