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Joachim Schirmer

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A Star Product for Complex Grasmann Manifolds

We explicitly construct a star product for the complex Grassmann manifolds using the method of phase space reduction. Functions on $\mathbb{C}^{(p+q)\cdot p~*}$, the space of $(p+q)\times p$ matrices of rank p, invariant under the right action of $Gl(p,\mathbb{C})$ can be regarded as functions on the Grassmann manifold $G_{p,q}(\mathbb{C})$, but do not form a subalgebra whereas functions only invariant under the unitary subgroup $U(p)\subset Gl(p,\mathbb{C})$ do. The idea is to construct a projection from $U(p)$- onto $Gl(p,\mathbb{C})$-invariant functions, whose kernel is an ideal. This projection can be used to define a star-algebra on $G_{p,q}(\mathbb{C})$ onto which this projection acts as an algebra-epimorphism.

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Triad formulations of Canonical Gravity without a fixed reference frame

One can simplify the triad formulations of canonical gravity by abandoning any relation to a fixed coordinate system. That means in case of the \ADM formalism that one can determine the momentum by direct derivation of the Lagrange-3-form w.r.t the time-derivative of the triad-1-forms, thus the momentum is most naturally a 2-form. We apply this concept to the Palatini formulation where we can closely follow Dirac's concept to find and eliminate the second class constraints. Following the same way for the Ashtekar theory it will turn out to be equivalent to two successive canonical transformations where the first makes explicit use of the spatial dimension being 3 and the second is usually hidden in the use of densities. At the end we can give a simple version of the reality constraints.

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