Canonical normal coordinates

DOI10.1007/BF00760625MaRDI QIDQ1116477zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. E. Nelson, Tullio Regge

Publication date 1989

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00760625

zbMATH Keywords

coordinate gaugeDirac formalismnormal coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences (53B50) General relativity (83C99)

Review text

We examine the advantages and disadvantages of fixing the coordinate gauge to be that of the Riemann normal coordinates by applying the Dirac formalism for constrained canonical systems in general relativity.

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