Monday, September 2, 2019

general relativity - The einbein in the action of a relativistic massive point particles



The action of a relativistic massive point particle moving in space-time is



S=mdτgνρdxνdτdxρdτ


[with Minkowski sign convention (+,,,)]. Because of the the square root in the action, one introduces the einbein field e and the action becomes


S=1/2dτ(e1˙X2em2).


I understand this but I can't come up with the expression of the action with the einbein field myself.




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