Speaker
Ernesto Frodden
Description
We review the surface charge method in the Einstein-Cartan formalism and study in particular the role of torsion in the computation of charges. An example in 2+1 gravity is worked out explicitly and some advances in the Einstein-Cartan-Dirac theory are presented.
Primary authors
Diego Hidalgo
(Centro de Estudios Científicos)
Ernesto Frodden
Roverto Oliveri
(Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physics - CEICO)
