A Lie-Rinehart algebra in general relativity

DOI10.4310/PAMQ.2023.V19.N4.A2MaRDI QIDQ6084377zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors C. Blohmann, M. Schiavina, Alan Weinstein

Publication date 30 November 2023

Published in Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.02883

zbMATH Keywords

Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky theoryboundary value problemEinstein equationsLagrangian field theoryLie algebroid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetries, Lie group and Lie algebra methods for problems in mechanics (70G65) Lagrangian formalism and Hamiltonian formalism in mechanics of particles and systems (70S05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: We construct a Lie-Rinehart algebra over an infinitesimal extension of the space of initial value fields for Einstein's equations. The bracket relations in this algebra are precisely those of the constraints for the initial value problem. The Lie-Rinehart algebra comes from a slight generalization of a Lie algebroid in which the algebra consists of sections of a sheaf rather than a vector bundle. (An actual Lie algebroid had been previously constructed by Blohmann, Fernandes, and Weinstein over a much larger extension.) The construction uses the BV-BFV (Batalin-Fradkin-Vilkovisky) approach to boundary value problems, starting with the Einstein equations themselves, to construct an $L_{i}nfty$-algebroid over a graded manifold which extends the initial data. The Lie-Rinehart algebra is then constructed by a change of variables. One of the consequences of the BV-BFV approach is a proof that the coisotropic property of the constraint set follows from the invariance of the Einstein equations under space-time diffeomorphisms.

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