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a r X i v : g r - q c / 9 5 0 6 0 1 3 v 1 7 J u n 1 9 9 5 NEW PERSPECTIVES IN COMPLEX GENERAL RELATIVITY GIAMPIERO ESPOSITO Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli Mostra d’Oltremare Padiglione 20, 80125 Napoli, Italy Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Mostra d’Oltremare Padiglione 19, 80125 Napoli, Italy E-mail: esposito@napoli.infn.it Abstract. In complex general relativity, Lorentzian space-time is re- placed by a four-complex-dimensional complex-Riemannian manifold, with holomorphic connection and holomorphic curvature tensor. A multisymplec- tic analysis shows that the Hamiltonian constraint is replaced by a geometric structure linear in the holomorphic multimomenta, providing some boundary conditions are imposed on two-complex-dimensional surfaces. On studying such boundary conditions, a link with the Penrose twistor programme is found. Moreover, in the case of real Riemannian four-manifolds, the local theory of primary and secondary potentials for gravitino fields, recently pro- posed by Penrose, has been applied to Ricci-flat backgrounds with boundary. The geometric interpretation of the differential equations obeyed by such sec- ondary potentials is related to the analysis of integrability conditions in the theory of massless fields, and might lead to a better understanding of twistor geometry. Thus, new tools are available in complex general relativity and in classical field theory in real Riemannian backgrounds. 1. Introduction Within the framework of relativistic theories of gravitation, the main aim of the Penrose twistor programme is to provide a purely geometric tool for solving the Ein- stein equations within a holomorphic, conformally invariant formalism.1,2 For this purpose, the Lorentzian space-time of Einstein’s general relativity is replaced by a four-complex-dimensional complex-Riemannian manifold with holomorphic metric, holomorphic connection and holomorphic curvature tensor. Such a programme suc- ceeds in studying anti-se