Ashtekar's new Hamiltonian formulation of general relativity is derived starting from a complex covariant four-dimensional action principle. The action is a modification of the tetrad-Palatini action that results from splitting the connection into the self-dual and anti-self-dual pieces and keeping only the former.
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Jacobson et al. (1988) studied this question.
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